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On 01/14/2013 08:47 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:21:59PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:39:10 -0500 >> Shirley M?rquez D?lcey <mark at buttery.org> wrote: >> >>> The catch is that this may cause a severe performance drop in an >>> engine designed for high octane fuel, not the mere 10HP that >>> somebody alluded to. >> That was me, and it shouldn't be more than about 10HP at the high end >> under normal circumstances. >> >> ANYWAY. Joe Consumer doesn't give a damn about any of this. He just >> wants to push a button, fill the tank, and go. > Yes, but this kind of speaks to Mark's points (regarding things being > complicated and Joe Consumer not knowing what he doesn't know). Your > assertions quite differ from everything I personally have read on the > subject (which is a fair number of articles at this point) and even if > you ARE right, my owner's manual states quite clearly that running on > low octane gas will damage the engine, and the catalytic converter, > and void my warranty. I'll choose to believe the folks who'll make me > pay hand over fist to repair my car for doing what they expressly told > me not to... Well, there is a lot of science in modern cars. The retardation of the ignition timing could allow unburned gas to reach the catalytic converter. This could cause some damage. Sure. > > I'm not about to trust that YOU know what you don't know, since it's > nearly impossible to know that something you think you know is > wrong. I (fortunately) lack the empirical experience to KNOW whether > you're right, and acquiring that experience is not worth the expense > of doing so, should you turn out to be wrong. Sources of information > are plentiful; sources of CORRECT information are few, and even those > may be open to interpretation. > > Why does this matter to this discussion? In part, it's because most > people aren't interested in reading their owner's manual, and as a > result are more likely to listen to, say, trusted friends who may or > may not have any idea what they're talking about. Worse yet, they'll > listen to people they recognize on the internet... But either way, > they got their info from someone whom at some point they decided they > trust; so when they come to you, the well-informed support person, > they're not in a hurry to believe you, if what you're telling them > differs from what they think they know. I like to call this "who got > there first" syndrome. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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