Free Republic

LANCASTER - The Texaco gas station on Challenger Way and Avenue K is back open and customers are slowly returning to the pumps, but no one has figured out just what contaminated the regular unleaded four weeks ago. More than 100 people have reported problems arising from bad gas, according to the station's StarMart manager, Bob O'Kelley. The station closed on Sept. 27 and reopened on Oct. 10. "It's picking up slowly," O'Kelley said. "We're getting our regulars back. We have the same customers every day because we're in the neighborhood. It's not like we're on the freeway, a car...

LANCASTER - Can you trust your car to the gasoline with the star? An unknown contaminant in the gasoline at the Texaco Starmart on Challenger Way and Avenue K caused at least 45 cars to break down in the past week, puzzling drivers and mechanics. Mike Aubrey, owner of Mike's Performance Automotive in Lancaster, first heard about the problem Sept. 29. A week later, he was dealing with the third car to break down after getting gasoline from the Starmart. "What we're having to do is take the manifold out and replace all the injectors," Aubrey said, taking a fuel...