I figured it was a marketing gimmick to get you to buy 88 and then they would finally raise the price, but it’s been years. are they adding extra ethanol or something?

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    that’s wild. is this relatively new? I used to live in the Great White North and I’ve only been down in Florida for 10 years

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      I must confess - aside from knowing there was a difference, I didn’t really know what the difference was until a few online searches yesterday.

      The understanding I have is that winter/summer gas programs began in the late 1980’s.
      My supposition is that they have been handled seamlessly to the point that unless you are involved in regulation or the industry, it’s relatively inconsequential to most folks. I imagine knowledge of the program’s existence is probably one of those things that people sorta ignore unless it randomly becomes a topic of conversation. (Like any number of random regulations that impact our daily lives that we just don’t think about most of the time.)

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        I did always wonder how they made up for the changing energy density due to temperature