The WalMart down the road was selling Mini Maureen O'Gara Trolls (MoGTrolls) for 2 cents a piece. That was even less than the 5 cents a piece I paid for those damn monkeys... so I figured "What have I got to loose?"
So I bought 250 MoGTrolls for $5.00. I mean, what's 5 buck, right? What could possibly go wrong?
I took my 250 MoGTrolls home. I have a big car. One of them insisted on driving. Its' name was Maureen O'Gara (all the MoGTrolls answer to Maureen O'Gara). It was retarded, even for a troll. In fact, now that I had them outside in the daylight, it was obvious that they were all "more than a few bricks short of a full load." I couldn't let the MoGTroll drive, so I kicked it in the head. It LIKED being kicked in the head! WTF? So I obliged it by kicking it some more. Soon, all the MoGTrolls were kicking each other and giggling like crazy, snot running down their ugly troll faces. This made it hard to drive, but we finally made it home.
I herded them into the basement. They didn't adapt well to their new environment. They stopped kicking each other, and just sulked. Then they began pulling the hair out of each other. It quickly became a mess. Oh, and nobody told me that MoGTrolls aren't toilet trained. I googled and yahoo'd for "toilet training MoGTrolls", but all that came back was "lots of luck, sucker!" and "never been done."
The novelty of having 250 MoGTrolls had worn off.
The MogTrolls got out of the basement and kept trying to use my computers, even though everyone knows that MoGTrolls can't write for shit. They kept on, though, and started posting all sorts of weird, distorted stuff. I mean REALLY bent! So my ISP cut me off. I hate MoGTrolls.
I had to find another ISP. And the damn MoGTrolls got me kicked off that one, too. I went from high-speed cable to adsl to dialup to - well, lets just say that TCP/IP over a clothesline really sux. I can only post when my neighbours are doing their laundry. I feel SO low having to steal bandwidth through their underware flapping in the breeze!
Did I mention that I hate MoGTrolls?
At least by now I knew why the MoGTrolls were so cheap - nobody would want one. All they do is sit around and make rambling random noise and emit noxious vapours, and excrete stuff that even the dogs don't want to sniff... and dogs will eat their own puke!
I didn't know what to do - I was at wits end. So I went out to the local Home Depot and bought some muriatic acid, the stuff you use on concrete. I took one of the MoGTrolls and dipped it into the muriatic acid. The acid turned into goo. I poored some on the sidewalk outside, and it quickly melted the ice. Unfortunately, it also completely removed the top inch of concrete. The city had to replace the sidewalk. I got the bill last week. I hate MoGTrolls.
I decided to kill them all and throw them in the garbage. Do you have any idea how HARD it is to kill a MoGTroll? They're worse than cockroaches! You can drop a load of bricks on them, squish them flatter than a penny after the train's gone over it, and next morning they're back at it again, spitting, being mean, and just looking butt-ugly as usual.
So I tried to have a garage sale. I TRIED to make them look half-way decent, but MoGTrolls are like SCO stock - no amount of lipstick will make that pig look good. Not only did I not sell a single MoGTroll; the police gave me a fine for disturbing the peace. All the kids in the neighbourhood are having nightmares, and the school has to have a psychologist on staff full-time to deal with all the trauma that being exposed to a whole herd of MoGTrolls can cause in young minds. I hate MoGTrolls.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It's still there. Then I had one wet gibbering MoGTroll, 1 acid-stained MoGTroll, and 248 dry MoGTrolls, and one blocked toilet. The MoGTroll won't come out of
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Dude, you misunderstood him. He was talking about his culture, where it's persecution if you're ostracized for hating on gays or your irrational spiritual/political beliefs. I'm not saying Jesus would approve of his culture, but he's right about its origins.
Wrong on both counts. I'm not a "dude", and the founders made darned sure that there was a separation of church and state for a reason.
There is no longer an appeal to British courts or crown - the Canadian Supreme Court is the last stop - so Canada is legally it's own master. Maintaining some ceremonial ties is a cultural thing, same as Quebec maintains cultural ties with France. When you look at how far up Bush's rectum the Blair government was, and how Canada basically said "You're wrong - your REAL friends will tell you that..." Canada is more independent than the British/US odd couple.
Probably explains how the two countries with the worst housing bubbles were... the US and Britain!!!
And the courts have already held that the preamble has ZERO - NONE - NIL - NADA legal effect. It is there as "social commentary", nothing more, and may not be cited in any legal filing.
Our entire culture is based on Judeo-Christian traditions.
Really? "Jesus waterboards!" "Jesus saves - at CitiBank - so it's God's will to bail them out!" "Jesus healed the sick - so you don't need universal healthcare. You need to PRAY more."
BTW - Jesus never said a word against gays or lesbians. Not one. So do like Jesus would - approve same-sex marriage.
The point is that this country was founded on religious freedoms. Without those religious fundamentalists fighting and dieing for their beliefs you would still be stuck under the rule of the Anglican church.
Like England is? Last I looked, they were a pretty secular, post-xian society
Or you could have ended up lie - OMG - Canada. Canada didn't fight to be free of Britain, and look a them - still a British colony - except they're NOT... and they're also a post-xian society, with universal health care.
If you fundies brains were dynamite, you couldn't even blow your own noses. So blow it out your ear.
Just wait a while ...
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... with the federal deficit exploding, the fed is doing a fine job of hollowing out ALL you money, not just the change in your pocket.
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My test data is good for over a decade. And as YOUR quote points out, premium blends do in fact have a higher heat content if they haven't been adulterated with crap like ethanol.
Fortunately, I know which gas stations sell ethanol mixes and which don't. I made the mistake one time gassing up at one of the ethanol-based ones and noticed an immediate (tank-to-tank) drop of over 10%, so I checked the label on the pump the next time I was in the area, and sure enough, they use ethanol.
As for the refinery stuff - it's been established practice for 50 years. Get over it.
the examples you refer to all deal with gross movement and the choices are all pretty far apart.
Close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose with your fingertip. The tip of your nose is about the size of a key on your keyboard, and yet you'll be able to do it. Police use this test all the time as an indicator that you're drunk.
Or think of mice - do you look at the mouse when you're moving around on the screen - even for fine work? Do you even have to take your eyes off the screen to find your mouse? Or how about graphics pads? (In other words, maybe the answer was literally at the tip of your nose, but you didn't see it:-)
Have you tried drinking from a very full glass of water in pitch black? Think you could do it without spilling? In drinking water, you most certainly get visual feedback, even if only peripheral, it is good enough for the gross control you need until you get close and its just fuzzy control after all.
I can drink from my coffee cup just fine without looking at it - I don't fill it to the brim. That's inviting spilling, whether it's in the dark or not.
I actually have to look at my TIVO remote to see what button I am on. Perhaps I am defective, you are saying you can pick up the remote and without looking at it push the correct button? Of course once I am on the "up" button it is easy to keep pressing it, and even the down since it is a short distance away, but not so easy to find the "skip 30 seconds".
What can I say? Practice makes perfect. I'm sure that most of us can do ctrl+c, ctrl+x, ctrl+v without looking at the keyboard, and that requires moving the hand completely away from the home keys. Do you then have to look at the keyboard to return to the home keys? If so, you're not a touch typist to begin with, so the point is then pretty irrelevant.
Visual feedback from the screen means that you're getting a delayed response telling you you're on the right or wrong key, probably not the fastest way to locate your position, especially since if you type fast, you've probably already moved on by the time that information registers.
You're talking a fraction of a second. And as long as the error rate is low to begin with, who cares? It's not a factor at that point.
I'm a little surprised by the tone of your response, maybe mine came off rude, but I was really curious as to how you find your way around the keyboard.
I probably could have phrased it better, but by the same token, instead of expressing doubt, maybe you could have thought it through. After all, blind or visually impaired people manage to do all this and more, so it's probably that most people haven't thought to try to do this. It's the same as playing ping-pong - most people won't think of learning how to change hands quickly so as to get a ball that's hit "on their wrong side", but once you learn how, it's SO much quicker, lets you cover more of the table, and gives a huge advantage, not only in returning the ball, but in being ready for the next hit.
1. Actual real-life testing by me and others says otherwise. So do the chemical equations.
2. The refinery cracking isn't a theory. It's standard practice, and well known in the industry. Same as they can get a higher yield of gasoline per barrel when there's less demand for heating oil. A barrel can be fractionated differently depending on the desired production yields.
without looking at the keyboard you are able to let your fingers wander away? Most (all?) keyboard have a little nubbin on the home keys so you know where you are. How do you know where your fingers are, relative to the keys, without looking at the keyboard?
I can see this the next election - a bunch of people change their last names to "Lynching" or "Lin Ching" or something like that, and their campaign slogan is "Election 2012: Vote for Lynching for The President and Every Senator and Congressman on the ballot".
the "octane rating" has nothing to do with the actual octane content - it's a measure of detonation resistance compared to burning pure C8H18 - octane - instead of a mix of heptane and octane.
You're confusing octane rating - which they can increase by adding crap like ethanol which has less energy density - and the chemical known as octane. There's a difference between heptane (which is the major component in gasoline) and octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane)- one more carbon and 2 more hydrogen atoms. So, let's do the chemical reactions:
Heptane = C7H16 + 11 * O2 = 7 * CO2 + 8 * H2O
Octane = C8H18 + 02 = 8 * CO2 + 9 * H2O
When cracked at the refinery, the oil companies try to get as much heptane as possible while still being able to keep the RON (Research Octane Number) within the target range by adding additives. So no, the wiki article is too simplistic, and flies in the face of the fact that refineries can't produce as many gallons of premium as they can of regular for the same amount of crude - a higher ratio of C8H19 to C7H16 than regular, which requires an extra CH2.
So it all depends on how they get the "higher octane rating." Using ethanol, you get lass energy. Using octane, you get more. You can even use good old H2O to increase resistance to detonation - just inject it directly into the cylinder. Racers have been doing this for decades.
It's also why the whole "gasahol" thing didn't result in any overall energy savings.
You're confusing octane rating and the chemical known as octane. There's a difference between heptane (which is the major component in gasoline) and octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane)- one more carbon and 2 more hydrogen atoms. So, let's do the chemical reactions:
Heptane = C7H16 + 11 * O2 = 7 * CO2 + 8 * H2O
Octane = C8H18 + 02 = 8 * CO2 + 9 * H2O
When cracked at the refinery, the oil companies try to get as much heptane as possible while still being able to keep the RON (Research Octane Number) within the target range by adding additives. So no, the wiki article is too simplistic, and flies in the face of the fact that refineries can't produce as many gallons of premium as they can of regular for the same amount of crude - a higher ratio of C8H19 to C7H16 than regular, which requires an extra CH2.
the "octane rating" has nothing to do with the actual octane content - it's a measure of detonation resistance compared to burning pure C8H18 - octane - instead of a mix of heptane and octane.
Time to go back to your high-school chemistry. There's a difference between heptane (which is the major component in gasoline) and octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane)- one more carbon and 2 more hydrogen atoms. So, let's do the chemical reactions:
Heptane = C7H16 + 11 * O2 = 7 * CO2 + 8 * H2O
Octane = C8H18 + 02 = 8 * CO2 + 9 * H2O
When cracked at the refinery, the oil companies try to get as much heptane as possible while still being able to keep the RON (Research Octane Number) within the target range by adding additives. So no, the wiki article is too simplistic, and flies in the face of the fact that refineries can't produce as many gallons of premium as they can of regular for the same amount of crude - a higher ratio of C8H19 to C7H16 than regular, which requires an extra CH2.
the "octane rating" has nothing to do with octane content - ethanol being a good example of that. It helps reduce detonation in engines because it's a crap fuel source in comparison to both heptane and octane. Putting it into the gasoline mix raises the effective octane rating but lowers the energy density. Same as injecting water raises the effective octane rating but lowers the energy density. And yes, you CAN inject water into car engines to help control detonation - it's been done in racing since the 70s, and it's also a great way to clean out the carbon build-up on cylinder heads - take the air cleaner off, hold the throttle at full bore, and slowly pour water directly into the engine while it's running. (You can also do this with automatic transmission fluid if you want to unstick a ticking valve, but be ready for LOTS of dense white smoke).
During the first oil crisis, we heard the exact same claims. "Heating the fuel ahead of time gives more miles per gallon". Sure - and more detonation, which is what you get when you ignite ALL the fuel at once. So to suppress detonation, you have to go to higher octane - and higher octane fuels contain more energy, which translates to more mpg. The difference between regular and premium on my car is 5% (yes, I keep track of my mpg on every fill-up - I can tell the difference between the seasons, or when I've made the mistake of filling up at a place that sells gasohol - 10% drop right there...), so if premium is less than 5% more expensive, I buy it.
doesn't require a spark to ignite the fuel.
Welcome to the world of the diesel cycle, which has always been more efficient.
also treats the gasoline with a catalyst that 'activates' it, partially oxidizing it to enhance combustion
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Sure they have a stte church - and everyone ignores it, except for when they get up in parliament and tell them to stop bashing the gays and lesbians.
SCO objects to letting jury see the O'Gara (their own witness) emails:
SCO: Your honor, I object!
Judge: Why?
SCO: Because it's devastating to my case!
Judge: Overruled.
SCO: Good call!
Guaranteed that most of the jurors have seen "Liar Liar" and that they'll see the similarities to SCO.
I *really* *hate* MoGTrolls.
The WalMart down the road was selling Mini Maureen O'Gara Trolls (MoGTrolls) for 2 cents a piece. That was even less than the 5 cents a piece I paid for those damn monkeys ... so I figured "What have I got to loose?"
So I bought 250 MoGTrolls for $5.00. I mean, what's 5 buck, right? What could possibly go wrong?
I took my 250 MoGTrolls home. I have a big car. One of them insisted on driving. Its' name was Maureen O'Gara (all the MoGTrolls answer to Maureen O'Gara). It was retarded, even for a troll. In fact, now that I had them outside in the daylight, it was obvious that they were all "more than a few bricks short of a full load." I couldn't let the MoGTroll drive, so I kicked it in the head. It LIKED being kicked in the head! WTF? So I obliged it by kicking it some more. Soon, all the MoGTrolls were kicking each other and giggling like crazy, snot running down their ugly troll faces. This made it hard to drive, but we finally made it home.
I herded them into the basement. They didn't adapt well to their new environment. They stopped kicking each other, and just sulked. Then they began pulling the hair out of each other. It quickly became a mess. Oh, and nobody told me that MoGTrolls aren't toilet trained. I googled and yahoo'd for "toilet training MoGTrolls", but all that came back was "lots of luck, sucker!" and "never been done."
The novelty of having 250 MoGTrolls had worn off.
The MogTrolls got out of the basement and kept trying to use my computers, even though everyone knows that MoGTrolls can't write for shit. They kept on, though, and started posting all sorts of weird, distorted stuff. I mean REALLY bent! So my ISP cut me off. I hate MoGTrolls.
I had to find another ISP. And the damn MoGTrolls got me kicked off that one, too. I went from high-speed cable to adsl to dialup to - well, lets just say that TCP/IP over a clothesline really sux. I can only post when my neighbours are doing their laundry. I feel SO low having to steal bandwidth through their underware flapping in the breeze!
Did I mention that I hate MoGTrolls?
At least by now I knew why the MoGTrolls were so cheap - nobody would want one. All they do is sit around and make rambling random noise and emit noxious vapours, and excrete stuff that even the dogs don't want to sniff ... and dogs will eat their own puke!
I didn't know what to do - I was at wits end. So I went out to the local Home Depot and bought some muriatic acid, the stuff you use on concrete. I took one of the MoGTrolls and dipped it into the muriatic acid. The acid turned into goo. I poored some on the sidewalk outside, and it quickly melted the ice. Unfortunately, it also completely removed the top inch of concrete. The city had to replace the sidewalk. I got the bill last week. I hate MoGTrolls.
I decided to kill them all and throw them in the garbage. Do you have any idea how HARD it is to kill a MoGTroll? They're worse than cockroaches! You can drop a load of bricks on them, squish them flatter than a penny after the train's gone over it, and next morning they're back at it again, spitting, being mean, and just looking butt-ugly as usual.
So I tried to have a garage sale. I TRIED to make them look half-way decent, but MoGTrolls are like SCO stock - no amount of lipstick will make that pig look good. Not only did I not sell a single MoGTroll; the police gave me a fine for disturbing the peace. All the kids in the neighbourhood are having nightmares, and the school has to have a psychologist on staff full-time to deal with all the trauma that being exposed to a whole herd of MoGTrolls can cause in young minds. I hate MoGTrolls.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It's still there. Then I had one wet gibbering MoGTroll, 1 acid-stained MoGTroll, and 248 dry MoGTrolls, and one blocked toilet. The MoGTroll won't come out of
Cassandra is basically a sloppy implementation of UniVerse and elated products. Why sloppy? Because the idea of a separate file access for each column sucks - use a union or struct as necessary, people!
Wrong on both counts. I'm not a "dude", and the founders made darned sure that there was a separation of church and state for a reason.
Britain fell sucker to the whole "we can use technology to assist the police" thing and save money.
The US fell into the same trap.
So they both think that what's needed is more tech ....
What's really needed is stronger privacy laws and more beat cops working WITH the community, not "policing it."
Probably explains how the two countries with the worst housing bubbles were ... the US and Britain!!!
And the courts have already held that the preamble has ZERO - NONE - NIL - NADA legal effect. It is there as "social commentary", nothing more, and may not be cited in any legal filing.
Really? "Jesus waterboards!" "Jesus saves - at CitiBank - so it's God's will to bail them out!" "Jesus healed the sick - so you don't need universal healthcare. You need to PRAY more."
BTW - Jesus never said a word against gays or lesbians. Not one. So do like Jesus would - approve same-sex marriage.
Like England is? Last I looked, they were a pretty secular, post-xian society
Or you could have ended up lie - OMG - Canada. Canada didn't fight to be free of Britain, and look a them - still a British colony - except they're NOT ... and they're also a post-xian society, with universal health care.
If you fundies brains were dynamite, you couldn't even blow your own noses. So blow it out your ear.
... with the federal deficit exploding, the fed is doing a fine job of hollowing out ALL you money, not just the change in your pocket.
Riiiight ....
And then have to download it again. More time lost, more bandwidth (and with the way ISPs are introducing bandwidth caps, forget it).
And 720p? Are you kidding? The difference between 720 and 1080 is enormous!
They're still reproducing - we just call them politicians.
Can you say "artsy-fartsy"?
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Really - what's up with THAT?
My test data is good for over a decade. And as YOUR quote points out, premium blends do in fact have a higher heat content if they haven't been adulterated with crap like ethanol.
Fortunately, I know which gas stations sell ethanol mixes and which don't. I made the mistake one time gassing up at one of the ethanol-based ones and noticed an immediate (tank-to-tank) drop of over 10%, so I checked the label on the pump the next time I was in the area, and sure enough, they use ethanol.
As for the refinery stuff - it's been established practice for 50 years. Get over it.
Close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose with your fingertip. The tip of your nose is about the size of a key on your keyboard, and yet you'll be able to do it. Police use this test all the time as an indicator that you're drunk. Or think of mice - do you look at the mouse when you're moving around on the screen - even for fine work? Do you even have to take your eyes off the screen to find your mouse? Or how about graphics pads? (In other words, maybe the answer was literally at the tip of your nose, but you didn't see it :-)
I can drink from my coffee cup just fine without looking at it - I don't fill it to the brim. That's inviting spilling, whether it's in the dark or not.
What can I say? Practice makes perfect. I'm sure that most of us can do ctrl+c, ctrl+x, ctrl+v without looking at the keyboard, and that requires moving the hand completely away from the home keys. Do you then have to look at the keyboard to return to the home keys? If so, you're not a touch typist to begin with, so the point is then pretty irrelevant.
You're talking a fraction of a second. And as long as the error rate is low to begin with, who cares? It's not a factor at that point.
I probably could have phrased it better, but by the same token, instead of expressing doubt, maybe you could have thought it through. After all, blind or visually impaired people manage to do all this and more, so it's probably that most people haven't thought to try to do this. It's the same as playing ping-pong - most people won't think of learning how to change hands quickly so as to get a ball that's hit "on their wrong side", but once you learn how, it's SO much quicker, lets you cover more of the table, and gives a huge advantage, not only in returning the ball, but in being ready for the next hit.
1. Actual real-life testing by me and others says otherwise. So do the chemical equations.
2. The refinery cracking isn't a theory. It's standard practice, and well known in the industry. Same as they can get a higher yield of gasoline per barrel when there's less demand for heating oil. A barrel can be fractionated differently depending on the desired production yields.
They're on dialup. Who's to say it isn't Win95 on an 80 meg fat-16 hard drive that was upgraded from wfw 3.1?
How do you know where any body part is without looking at it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
When you're driving, do you have to look at the brake pedal to find it (hello, Toyota!)
Do you have to look at your mouse to use it, or do you just "know" where you left it?
Do you have to look at your coffee cup as you lift it to your mouth?
Or the game remote to make moves? Or the tv remote to change channels?
Besides, if you're looking at the screen as you type, you will be getting visual feedback, right?
I can see this the next election - a bunch of people change their last names to "Lynching" or "Lin Ching" or something like that, and their campaign slogan is "Election 2012: Vote for Lynching for The President and Every Senator and Congressman on the ballot".
Expect to see that as the Republican strategy ...
You're confusing octane rating - which they can increase by adding crap like ethanol which has less energy density - and the chemical known as octane. There's a difference between heptane (which is the major component in gasoline) and octane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane)- one more carbon and 2 more hydrogen atoms. So, let's do the chemical reactions:
Heptane = C7H16 + 11 * O2 = 7 * CO2 + 8 * H2O
Octane = C8H18 + 02 = 8 * CO2 + 9 * H2O
When cracked at the refinery, the oil companies try to get as much heptane as possible while still being able to keep the RON (Research Octane Number) within the target range by adding additives. So no, the wiki article is too simplistic, and flies in the face of the fact that refineries can't produce as many gallons of premium as they can of regular for the same amount of crude - a higher ratio of C8H19 to C7H16 than regular, which requires an extra CH2.
So it all depends on how they get the "higher octane rating." Using ethanol, you get lass energy. Using octane, you get more. You can even use good old H2O to increase resistance to detonation - just inject it directly into the cylinder. Racers have been doing this for decades.
It's also why the whole "gasahol" thing didn't result in any overall energy savings.
Heptane = C7H16 + 11 * O2 = 7 * CO2 + 8 * H2O
Octane = C8H18 + 02 = 8 * CO2 + 9 * H2O
When cracked at the refinery, the oil companies try to get as much heptane as possible while still being able to keep the RON (Research Octane Number) within the target range by adding additives. So no, the wiki article is too simplistic, and flies in the face of the fact that refineries can't produce as many gallons of premium as they can of regular for the same amount of crude - a higher ratio of C8H19 to C7H16 than regular, which requires an extra CH2.
the "octane rating" has nothing to do with the actual octane content - it's a measure of detonation resistance compared to burning pure C8H18 - octane - instead of a mix of heptane and octane.
Heptane = C7H16 + 11 * O2 = 7 * CO2 + 8 * H2O
Octane = C8H18 + 02 = 8 * CO2 + 9 * H2O
When cracked at the refinery, the oil companies try to get as much heptane as possible while still being able to keep the RON (Research Octane Number) within the target range by adding additives. So no, the wiki article is too simplistic, and flies in the face of the fact that refineries can't produce as many gallons of premium as they can of regular for the same amount of crude - a higher ratio of C8H19 to C7H16 than regular, which requires an extra CH2.
the "octane rating" has nothing to do with octane content - ethanol being a good example of that. It helps reduce detonation in engines because it's a crap fuel source in comparison to both heptane and octane. Putting it into the gasoline mix raises the effective octane rating but lowers the energy density. Same as injecting water raises the effective octane rating but lowers the energy density. And yes, you CAN inject water into car engines to help control detonation - it's been done in racing since the 70s, and it's also a great way to clean out the carbon build-up on cylinder heads - take the air cleaner off, hold the throttle at full bore, and slowly pour water directly into the engine while it's running. (You can also do this with automatic transmission fluid if you want to unstick a ticking valve, but be ready for LOTS of dense white smoke).
During the first oil crisis, we heard the exact same claims. "Heating the fuel ahead of time gives more miles per gallon". Sure - and more detonation, which is what you get when you ignite ALL the fuel at once. So to suppress detonation, you have to go to higher octane - and higher octane fuels contain more energy, which translates to more mpg. The difference between regular and premium on my car is 5% (yes, I keep track of my mpg on every fill-up - I can tell the difference between the seasons, or when I've made the mistake of filling up at a place that sells gasohol - 10% drop right there ...), so if premium is less than 5% more expensive, I buy it.
Welcome to the world of the diesel cycle, which has always been more efficient.
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