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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 5:11 PM Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>"... <span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>$2.41 per litre for premium 98 octane petrol ..."<br><br>Before us Yankees get all excited, I believe this is per the 'research' method. In the 'States we use the average of the research and motor methods, and there's generally a 7-8 octane point spread between the two, so this would be equivalent to 93-94-octane here.<br><br>"... NO ethanol content ..."<br><br>Now, THIS gets me excited! I presume NZ doesn't have corn mega-agribusiness shoving their product into our cars. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:11.4pt;text-indent:24.6pt'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue'>Nope. Not a whisper from ANY farming lobby groups down here. We don’t like ethanol in our gas. I don’t think some of us Kiwis realise just how lucky we are. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:11.4pt;text-indent:24.6pt'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue'>When I feel indulgent, I buy AvGas from one of the flight companies at our local Ardmore aerodrome. The Healeys just LOVE it. They don’t very often get to enjoy grey tail pipes. </span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:blue'>😉</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><br><br>Bob<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/8/2021 4:48 PM, Mark Donaldson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Gentlemen, to put things into perspective,</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Way down here in New Zealand we are presently paying NZ$2.41 per litre for premium 98 octane petrol guaranteed with NO ethanol content from selected <b>Mobil</b>, and some <b>BP</b> and <b>Caltex</b> stations around the country. </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>At the current USD v NZD exchange rate of 73 cents, that is US$1.76 per litre – or $6.66 per <b>US gallon</b>. That is exactly NZ$8.00 per <b>Imperial gallon</b>.</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I got 27.5 mpg from our tri-carb on a 2,278 mile trip to our National Rally in the South island in March. I’m very pleased with that.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The further south we got, the worse the gas got. It seems to be more prevalent in the South Island.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The car LOVES being back home in Auckland.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>In the Auckland region we pay an extra 10 cents plus tax to fund roading and transport projects. At least, that’s where our government tell us it’s going.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Frankly, I think a lot of that money is funding the literally hundreds of thousands of orange road cones clogging up our roads!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Ardmore, NZ</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <a href="mailto:ynotink@msn.com" target="_blank"><ynotink@msn.com></a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 8 May 2021 6:07 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> Bluehealey <a href="mailto:bluehealey@gmail.com" target="_blank"><bluehealey@gmail.com></a><br><b>Cc:</b> Bob Spidell <a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank"><bspidell@comcast.net></a>; Michael Salter <a href="mailto:michaelsalter@gmail.com" target="_blank"><michaelsalter@gmail.com></a>; <a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Vapor lock gas</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I feel your pain... But don’t worry, our politicians are busy working on ways to close that gap. Unleaded regular is up 60 to 70 cents in the last three months. Funny how that works.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bill Lawrence<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br>Support Team.Net <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br><br><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/springer.mike51@gmail.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/springer.mike51@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>