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Old 07-10-2007, 12:48 PM   #239
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Originally Posted by LabRat View Post
Someone have any Snopey type info to back me up?
Energy content of gasoline varies significantly just with different blends. Reynold number alone varies signficantly between winter and summer.

Problem with all these claims about colder or warmer gas - no numbers. Suggests junk science reasoning.

Prices vary even with season far more than the energy content in a gallon of gas due to temperature. If less energy in a summer gallon, well just another reason why that gallon costs a little less.

Meanwhile, how many people care? View the naive buying gas at discount stations (Sheets, Wawa, 7-11, Hess, etc) who therefore pay more for the gas - dollars per mile. Did they do the numbers? But again, so many just know; do not first do numbers. No numbers is how a junk scientist is created and promoted by the 'local gossip' (some call it the 5 o'clock news).
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