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<DIV><FONT size=2>If local law insists they add ethanol to a certain
proportion, which has the side-effect of increasing octane, why would they
continue using some other octane-boosting constituent? In fact surely they
would have no choice but to reduce or eliminate it in order to
maintain a given octane. Unless they let the octane rise several points
but market it as lower octane and sell it at that lower octane price
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<DIV><FONT size=2>PaulH.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black">The
skeptical and distrusting scientist in me wants to believe that petrol
manufacturers are using the ethanol content to elevate the effective octane
rating thereby saving the other octane boosting stuff, whatever it is.</DIV>
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