> To: mgs@autox.team.net ("MG digest submit"), mgworld@chp.ltd.uk
>(Phil Raby)
> Subject: Re: Petrol (or should that be gas?)
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 13:20:39 GMT
> From: hert@worldaccess.nl (Hertog)
> Reply-to: hert@worldaccess.nl (Hertog)
> Phil,
>
> All oil companies here (Holland) phased out leaded petrol last year. It was
> replaced by a product with lead-like properties, and it's sold at every
>filling
> station. I was a bit apprehensive at first but after contacts with Shell and
>MG
> specialists I put it in the B, and I have not noticed any difference at all.
>You
> could ask the oil companies why they don't introduce this stuff in the UK
>while
> they did do that in other countries.
>
> And to the US listers: please stop making me sick with gas-prices. Here
> standard unleaded goes for US$4 per US gallon, and there are four huge
> refineries just 10 miles from here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
> 74B(enzine)
Peter,
I guess we have always had it lucky here in the States when it comes
to gas prices. How else could GM have sold a 500-cubic inch
Cadillac?
Scott
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