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Originally posted by 92b16vx+Aug 19 2005, 02:38 PM-->100 octane at every Shell station, and you guys got nothing on this place, and won't...ever. I saw a guy pay 100 euro to fill his Audi.
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E_SolSi@Jul 17 2005, 12:48 AM
In Europe 98-octane gasoline is common and in Japan even 100-octane is readily available at the pumps, but this octane nomenclature is misleading to Americans as foreign octane ratings are derived entirely differently from our own... So, like every other measurement system it seems that everyone else uses a different scale than we do, but unlike most other instances where we have had the good sense to create different units of measure in this case we all use the same name...
Japan and Europe use a system called RON or Research Octane Number to determine the octane rating of their gasoline, while stateside we use a system called AKI or Anti-Knock Index to determine gasoline's octane rating... Interestingly, to further complicate things it would seem that our own AKI system is actually derived from the average of the RON system and another more complicated system referred to as MON or Motor Octane Number... So, to recap our methodologies for measuring gasoline's octane rating are different, but share some common elements...
So, with the commonality of RON in mind a good rule of thumb is as follows, multiply the foreign RON Octane rating by 0.95 and you will have the US AKI equivalent.
( RON Octane Rating x 0.95 = AKI Octane Rating )
98 RON Octane x 0.95 = 93.1 AKI Octane (US measure)
100 RON Octane x 0.95 = 95 AKI Octane (US measure)
So, as you can see the 93 or 94 octane fuel we are all paying an arm and a leg for is actually quite comparable to the higher octane fuels found in Europe and Japan. The people whom have to worry about low octane rating are our friends out west in places like California that are subjected to substandard 91 octane.
91 AKI Octane (US measure) = 95.5 RON Octane
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Originally posted by Battle Pope@Aug 21 2005, 04:10 PM
He can't come back in 2012. The most any president can "serve" is 2 terms.
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Originally posted by Battle Pope@Aug 22 2005, 12:13 AM
if the most he can serve is 2 consecutive terms, and his 2nd term will be up in 2012, then how would he be able to run again?
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Originally posted by pissedoffsol@Aug 22 2005, 08:08 AM
holy shit, i agree with james! 1st time ev4r.
thankfully, hes done in 08.
so from 08 to 12, some other guys has to run...
then in 12, he can campaign again.
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The president is elected for a 4 year term. A president may be elected twice only. If the president suffers serious injury and cannot serve or if he is impeached and removed from office, the vice president takes the place of the president and serves the remaining years. After serving the remaining years, the vice president can run for election as the incumbent. After Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected 4 times Congress passed a Constitutional amendment limiting the president’s tenure in office to two terms.
Originally posted by pissedoffsol@Aug 22 2005, 08:03 AM
so, who knows.... bush may pull something out of his ass.....
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