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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives
225 South St.
Williamstown, MA 01267
March 31, 2009
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|Finding aid encoded by Lacy SchutzMarch 8, 2007
|Finding aid written in English.
A Guide to the Realia
|Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives
225 South St.
Williamstown, MA 01267
|Clark, Robert Sterling, (1877-1956)
|1877 - 1956
|ca. 85 linear ft.
|These items range from a set of andirons presumably used by the Clarks to RSC's military uniforms. Items related to RSC's horse breeding and scientific exploration are included, as are decorative objects.
|English, French
Arrangement of the PapersThe items have been divided into seven subseries by type, or predominant use: Subseries 1. Luggage -- Subseries 2. Costume and Personalia -- Subseries 3. Clark Art Institute Miscellaneous -- Subseries 4. Decorative Arts -- Subseries 5. Surveying Instruments -- Subseries 6. Horse Furnishings and Equipment -- Subseries 7. Firearms -- Subseries 8. Liquors. Each subseries contains further description.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
This eclectic series of objects includes personal items such as RSC's military uniforms, as well as luggage, scientific equipment, horse tack, and decorative objects.
Biographical Note
Born in 1877, Robert Sterling Clark, along with his three brothers, was heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Their father, Alfred Corning Clark, was the son of Edward Corning Clark, Isaac Singer's business partner. RSC attended Yale University and graduated in 1899 with a degree in engineering. He joined the army and his service during the Boxer Rebellion earned him the commission of first lieutenant. In 1908, RSC undertook an expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in a remote area of northern China. He intended to carry out ethnographic and zoological research, as well as conduct surveys and create maps. His partner in this undertaking was Arthur de Carle Sowerby. Sowerby, in addition to being a naturalist, explorer, artist and editor, collected specimens for the British Museum and other museums of natural history in the United States and China. The expedition came to an abrupt end when Hazrat Ali, their translator and surveyor, was murdered.
Shortly thereafter, RSC moved to Paris. In 1909 he inherited various pieces of art from his family and these pieces became the foundation of the collection he was to build over the ensuing decades. He made his first purchases in 1912 and was initially attracted primarily to Dutch, Flemish and Italian old masters. Soon, his interests expanded to include silver, prints and drawings, rare books, and more contemporary artists such as Renoir, Degas, Sargent and Homer.
During this time RSC met Francine Clary. Formerly an actress with the Comedie Francaise, Francine was the mother of a daughter, Viviane Modzelewska. Francine and RSC began seeing one another in 1910, but didn't marry until 1919. Their relationship was a source of tension with RSC's family and eventually led to a rift between him and his brother, Stephen. Stephen, the youngest of the Clark brothers, had shouldered the daily administration of the family's fortunes. RSC felt that he was at a disadvantage because of the way the Singer trusts were constructed. Should something befall RSC, the money would pass back into the Clark family rather than to Francine and her daughter. When he was unable to resolve the issue within the family, he and Stephen had a falling out that would never be mended and RSC sued unsuccessfully in court to break up the trusts.
RSC and Francine were partners in assembling the collections that would eventually be housed at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, visiting galleries and dealers together. Another keen interest was horse breeding. RSC owned large operations that bred, raised and trained racehorses, first in Belgium and then in Virginia. In 1951, his horse, Never Say Die, won the Epsom Derby, the first American-bred horse ever to do so.
After considering various options for the eventual disposition of their artworks and objects, including donation to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and founding a museum in New York City, RSC and Francine decided to locate their collections in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1950 and continuing through RSC's death late in 1956, their lives were focused on building the Institute, both physically and administratively.
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This material is currently restricted.
Administrative Information
Custodial History
The origin of these materials is largely unknown. Presumably they came from the Clarks' apartment at the museum. Some of the items, such as the coat rack, were in use by employees of the Institute until recently. These items were and are all stored in the art vault or in other, less secure locations around the museum.
Preferred Citation
[Cite the item (as appropriate)], Realia Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Processing Information
In 2000 a contract archivist conducted an inventory. The numbers she assigned to items were retained, as well as her groupings of like items into one record. The objects were examined and catalogued between November and December 2006 by Lacy Schutz, Archivist and Danielle Ryan, Archives Assistant.
Related Material
On the occasion of the Clark Art Institute's 50th anniversary, the Clark published: The Clark brothers collect: impressionist and early modern paintings / Michael Conforti ... [et al.] ; with additional contributions by Daniel Cohen-McFall ... [et al.], Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006
Related or similar material can be found in the following series in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Diaries Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Correspondence Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Images Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Financial Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; and Personal Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers.


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updating this blog feels almost scary to me now, i feel controlled by my statcounter, and like whatever i say will or will not make people come back, and what does it even mean for someone to 'come back,' why do i care.
there has been a lot of school work so i have not been writing 'creatively.'
feel that i have neglected this blog and have been reduced to generic attention-seeking updates, maybe. but it has always kind of been that way, i don't know. the intention of this blog has been to serve as a placeholder for me in some kind of internet literary movement, like i will develop things eventually and maybe become a part of it, but i feel frustrated that i have had no time to devote to writing things that might contribute to that. writing that made me feel shitty, and like a higher version of myself is rolling their eyes at me. i feel a constant inner battle with modesty and not wanting to be perceived as 'self-important,' but i think i actually am. i hope i also appear funny. here is something funny:
submitted poems to places. nervous. i feel vague about what poetry is, even though i have taken several poetry classes and workshops. when i write a poem i feel like i am extremely drunk and have been given the keys to a very expensive car and told 'go ahead, you know what to do.'
i feel afraid that if i don't write more things i will become less real as a person because i will have less to show for myself. that feels irrational.
i am writing a story for brandon scott gorrell's short story contest. nervous. i should be studying for a final or at a bar right now but i am working on the story instead. i started studying but i stopped because it got too boring.
one time someone linked to me and said my blog was thought-provoking but inane, something like that. actually 'thought-provoking' is not the right adjective, i forget the positive adjective. 'inane' was definitely the negative adjective.
i like to be liked.
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i think by posting this, people who i know in real life might think i am 'despicably nerdy and insecure.'
somehow that is not stopping me from posting this. probably because i am despicably nerdy and insecure.
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- brandon said...
'hey bro'
- May 5, 2009 at 11:27 PM
- ryan manning said...
- May 6, 2009 at 5:20 AM
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damn, true. megan boyle. megan boyle. inbox (1). haha. i keep feeling an impulse to type 'i like your blog' and i keep suppressing it or something.
- May 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM
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brandon - hey bro, thanks for the link
ryan - yes
barack - i feel similar things about your blog, like how many times can i say 'i like that a lot' you know?
- May 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM
- sara said...
i have most of all of these feelings usually every day
studying is boring
- May 7, 2009 at 2:16 AM
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i feel like i should be ashamed for systematically going through all of your blog posts, like that is 'creepy' and i should be doing other things with my time, but your writing makes me feel like i'm crawling into someplace i belong. like a womb, maybe.
- October 26, 2010 at 4:06 PM
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Sovereign debt and fiscal deficits are strangling many advanced economies. Policy choices are complex, but there is an escape strategy that does not require draconian budget cuts or risky debt-financed stimulus spending. The solution is based on two principal policy levers: encouraging productivity-driven GDP growth and keeping government spending per worker constant. If governments align their policies with these growth principles, a fiscal surplus will eventually materialize and the ratio of government debt to GDP will decline substantially within one to two decades.


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US military officials have made it clear that while security on the ground in Iraq has improved in recent years, "there is still much work to be done and still plenty of extremists aided by states and organizations who are bent on pulling Iraq back into violence," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said during a visit to Iraq in April.
US troops are currently scheduled to leave by Dec. 31 under a security agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. When President Obama took office in January 2009, there were 144,000 US military personnel in the country.
The Iraqi government could request US troops to stay beyond 2011, but no such request has yet been made.
"Should the Iraqi government desire to discuss the potential for some US troops to stay, I am certain my government would welcome the dialogue," Admiral Mullen said during his April 22 visit to Iraq.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has echoed these sentiments, telling an audience at the American Enterprise Institute on May 24 that having US troops remain beyond 2011 "sends a powerful signal to the region that we're not leaving, that we will continue to play a part. I think it would not be reassuring to Iran, and that's a good thing," he added.
As recently as last week, senior US officials predicted that Iraq was poised to become "a political and economic leader in the Middle East." Colin Kahl, deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, acknowledged, however, that there remain considerable concerns in the Pentagon "about the readiness of the Iraqi government to provide security in Iraq as US forces draw down."
Mr. Kahl emphasized, too, that terrorists and militias continue to pose a threat throughout the country. In mid-May, three coordinated car bombs killed more than two dozen people in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, and at the end of May, Al Qaeda conducted a series of attacks in Baghdad that left 14 people dead and dozens wounded, Kahl said in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on June 1.
The Pentagon has signaled frequently in recent months that if Iraq decides that it wants US troops to stay beyond the 2011 deadline, they must make the request soon "should there be any chance of avoiding irrevocable logistics and operational decisions we must make in the coming weeks," Mullen said during his April visit to Iraq. "Time is running short for any negotiations to occur."
But Mr. Gates acknowledged last month the political difficulties that come with Iraqi leaders requesting an extended US troop presence in the country. "We have to realize that it is a political challenge for the Iraqis because, whether we like it or not, we're not very popular there" – particularly among the followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, he added. "The Sadirists clearly want us out."
Some defense analysts are wondering whether the attacks Monday that appear to have been launched out of eastern Baghdad in the neighborhood of Sadr City – a Shiite-controlled stronghold once notorious for its anti-US forces militias – could be an effort to dissuade the Iraqi government from asking US forces to stay.
It could, additionally, be a brutal public relations move, analysts point out – a bid by supporters of al-Sadr to claim credit for chasing the Americans out of the country.
"At the micro level, I think it's like the Mafia – there are all kinds of 17-year-old Sadrists who are trying to make their bones before US troops leave Iraq," says Douglas Ollivant, former director for Iraq at the National Security Council under the Bush and Obama administrations and senior fellow with the New America Foundation. "At the macro level, the Sadrists know we're leaving and they are trying to claim credit for our departure."
Pentagon officials continue to stress that whether US troops remain in Iraq beyond 2011 or not, continued US engagement with Iraq remains vital. "We are now at the point where the strategic dividends of our tremendous sacrifices and huge investments in Iraq are within reach as long as we take the proper steps to consolidate them," Kahl said.
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Panama said Wednesday that it had slapped disorderly conduct charges on 35 crewmembers of a rusty North Korean freighter carrying "obsolete" military equipment – including apparently two MiG-21 fighter jets – and summoned U.N. experts to ascertain if the shipment violated U.N. resolutions.
In one of the strangest weapons-smuggling cases in years, about 100 police cadets poured through the hold of the North Korean freighter for a third straight day, pulling out some of the 10,000 tons of bagged brown sugar in a search for what Cuba said would be 240 tons of "obsolete" military equipment that it was sending to North Korea for repair.
Panamanian authorities discovered some of equipment on Monday hidden behind the sugar bags when they searched the vessel after receiving a tip it might be carrying illegal drugs. The ship was preparing to cross the Panama Canal on its way to the Pacific Ocean after docking in Havana.
"We're taking everything out, everything. It's going to take at least until Sunday, and maybe into next week, to unload that ship," Panama's public security minister, Jose Raul Mulino, told McClatchy in a telephone interview.
Mulino said he was mystified by the Cuban government's assertion in a statement Tuesday that there were two MiG-21 fighter aircraft on board the 508-foot-long Chong Chon Gang. So far, Mulino said, the planes, which would be nearly 50 feet long each and 15 feet tall, have not been uncovered.
"I don't know how the MiGs would fit in this boat," he said. "I don't have the remotest idea how they would load those two MiGs on the ship."
The vessel is docked at Manzanillo, a port on one side of the Atlantic Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal where it was towed after Panama sought to search it.
U.S. weapons experts arrived in Panama Wednesday, British experts were expected later in the day, and Panama formally asked the U.N. Security Council to send its own experts to identify the Soviet-era equipment, according to Panama's foreign ministry.
In its statement taking responsibility for the shipment, Cuba emphasized that the military equipment was being sent to North Korea for repairs and was to have been returned to the island. That appeared to be an attempt to sidestep U.N. Security Council Resolution 1817, which bans "the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer" of all but small weapons to North Korea because of its refusal to halt its nuclear weapons program.
Cuba stressed in its statement that the "obsolete defensive weapons" had all been manufactured in the mid 20th century. It said the equipment included two anti-aircraft missile systems, nine missiles "in parts and spares," two MiG-21 jets and 15 engines for the MiGs.
Panamanian Foreign Minister Fernando Nunez Fabrega said in a statement that Cuba cannot legitimately argue that the weapons were nonfunctional.
"The Security Council resolution does not speak to whether they are functional or operational. It just says that warplanes may not be transported to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," Nunez Fabrega said, referring to North Korea by its formal name.
New details added to the mystery.
– Hours before President Ricardo Martinelli broke news of the weapons seizure Monday night, Panamanian diplomats met with Cuba's vice foreign minister, Rogelio Sierra Diaz, who flew to Panama to appeal for the ship's release. His appeal was rejected.
– The Martinelli government said the North Korean vessel's manifest made no mention of the used weaponry, and would have violated not only U.N. resolutions but also laws governing passage through the Panama Canal.
– The white bags of brown sugar that hid the armament were themselves unusual. According to one knowledgeable sugar industry administrator who asked not to be further identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, sugar of that sort is usually shipped in bulk, not bagged, because it is almost always refined after it arrives at its destination. It made little sense for the sugar to have been placed in 100-pound bags before it was loaded aboard the ship, he said.
– At least four other North Korean vessels besides the Chong Chon Gang have crossed the Panama Canal since 2010, the New York Times reported, citing a maritime trafficking specialist at IHS FairPlay in London, Richard Hurley. One of the ships, the Oun Chong Nyon Ho, also visited ports in Cuba after passing through Panama, it reported.
In its first commentary on the ship, North Korea asserted that Panamanian authorities "rashly attacked" the ship's crew, according to Pyongyang's official news agency, KCNA, citing an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman. It urged Panama to let the ship and crew leave "without delay.
"This cargo is nothing but aging weapons which are to be sent back to Cuba after overhauling them according to a legitimate contract," the spokesman was quoted as saying.
Analysts, however, remained stumped.
Why, for example, would Cuba risk a warming trend in relations with the United States to smuggle weapons to North Korea when it would have been easier to bring North Korean technicians to the island? The two nations are not considered to be major weapons business partners.
"Why didn't the North Koreans just do it in Cuba? Maybe there's not a lot of industrial capability that the state has there," said Jeffrey Lewis, a senior researcher at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at California's Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Cuba also could have sent the equipment for repair in Russia, said Frank Mora, deputy assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere from 2009 to January and now director of Florida International University's Latin American and Caribbean Center.
"It's illogical. It doesn't make sense," Mora said of Havana's decision to send the weapons and parts to North Korea. "Why take this risk at a time when Cuba appeared to be trying to improve relations with us. . . . How do you explain what seems to be irrational."
The ship's crew and captain were being detained at a naval facility at Fort Sherman, a onetime U.S. Army base on the Atlantic side of the canal, Mulino said.
"They've been charged with disorderly conduct," Mulino said, referring to what he called a riot aboard the ship when Panamanian authorities sought to direct it to Manzanillo for a search last week.
Nunez Fabrega said Panama had issued visas to two North Korean diplomats based in Havana to travel to the isthmus "to give explanations or inspect their ship."
At the United Nations, Britain's ambassador, Mark Lyall Grant, said that while "the facts clearly need to be established," the Cuban shipment of weapons appeared to violate the U.N. ban on the trading of arms by or with North Korea.
"On the face of it, the transfer of these weapons to North Korea would be a violation of the sanctions regime on North Korea," he told reporters in New York. "Therefore there are questions to be answered, which need to be followed up."
In Washington, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said in a statement that the incident underscored why Cuba should be kept on the State Department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism. "Weapons transfers from one communist regime to another hidden under sacks of sugar are not accidental occurrences," he said.
The issue did not come up during U.S.-Cuba immigration talks that took place Wednesday after a two-year suspension, said State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf.
"We've told the Cubans that we will talk to them about the ship very soon," she said.


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PLAINVIEW - Combine a New York pet shop and a murder mystery and what do you get? At Wayland Baptist University, you get The Artificial Jungle, the next production of the Wayland theatre department. The play will be performed as a dinner theatre on Feb. 27 and 28 and March 4, 5, and 6.
Dr. Marti Runnels, theatre director at Wayland, said the play is an interesting blend of a thriller with a comic edge.
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The cast combines newcomers and Wayland theatre veterans. Kelley Dunn, a theatre minor from Bledsoe, will play Roxanne Nurdiger. Kelley appeared in the fall production of Shorts , a series of short plays, but this will be her first role in a major production. Billy Boone, a senior theatre major from Abilene, will play Chester Nurdiger. Boone is a familiar face to Wayland theatergoers, having been in nearly every production since coming to the university.
Sophomore Jennifer Riley of Plainview, another WBU theatre veteran, will play Mrs. Nurdiger, Chester's mother. Riley's brother, Craig Huckeby of Plainview, who appeared in Shorts in the fall, will be making his first major production appearance as Zachary Slade. Sophomore Doug Warren of Pampa, who appeared in Shorts and in the fall production of Fools, will round out the cast as Frankie Spinelli.
Crew leaders for the production include Tim Fisher as stage manager, Chris Stegall as set crew head, Milea Simpson as light crew head, Jennifer Rutherford as sound crew head, Lisa Angel as makeup crew head, Desi Pharis as publicity crew head and Kelley Dunn as costume crew head.
Dinner for the production will begin at 7 p.m. on the stage of Harral Auditorium. The show will begin at 8 p.m. across the hall in the Harral Studio Theatre. Tickets are $15 for the dinner and show. Paid reservations are required for the dinner theatre, with patrons having the option of bringing by payment or reserving by phone with a credit card. For reservations, contact the Box Office at 291-1089.
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July 01, 2013, 08:38:39 pm »
There is a new gimmick in gas price warefare. I see the western states have de-rated regular gas from 87 octane to 85 or 85.5 octane for the same price. The usual 87 octane is now called "blended" or "plus" or such and costs around 10 cents a gallon more (and "premium" yet another 10 cents more).
In flat land that probably does not cause a problem because low octane pinging can be controlled by the engine computer. I got fooled the first fill-up. Power was effected. I had a struggle to pull the 11,000 feet of the Chief Joseph and Beartooth highways near Cody, WY. I now pay the extra price.
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July 02, 2013, 12:16:06 am »
I understand that the higher the octane rating, the slower the fuel burns. The lower the rating, the faster the fuel burns. Performance cars with higher compression engines require high octane to burn slower to prevent pre-detination we all know as the bottle rattling noise or pinging.
When driving in high altitude 5000 feet and higher, the oxygen in the air is thinner. The fuel is formulated accordingly with less octane for the fuel to burn better with less oxygen. So there is a logic to the lower octane at high altitude. It is not a gimmick. It has been that way for as long as I can remember.
In the case with our Ford V10 gasoline engines, the owners manual says to maintain 87 octane even in high altitude conditions. In my 2007 owners manual it is stated so on page 228 under "Octane Recommendations". This coincides with your experience. It also says that your engine sometimes will ping lightly which is considered normal. Excessive pinging is cause to see a mechanic.
So your advise is "Right On".
Pay the money and always use 87 octane fuel.
On a related note, never use a higher rated octane than your engine requires. This because over time, carbon (black soot) will build up on the valve seats which in turn causes pinging. It's sort-of-like getting your engine addicted/dependant on high octane fuel. So if you have consistently run premium fuel in a regular octane engine and suddenly switch to regular fuel as stated in the owners manual, the engine could ping a lot, forcing you to return to premium fuel.
There are decarbonizing products on the market which can sometimes be effective in fixing the addiction, pending the severity of the carbon build-up. Generally speaking fuel additives are less effective than the type that gets sucked in through a vacuum line off the intake manifold. I had very good luck with OTC D-Karbonizer on a Pontiac Fiero-GT I once treasured. I bought the car used and it pinged unless I used premium fuel. After the treatment, I was able to use regular gas as the owners manual says to. The engine seemed to have a bit more power, and of coarse my fuel costs were lower.
The OTC D-Karbonizer is a pint sized bottle of special liquid that you allow the intake vacuum draw in the liquid over the coarse of a minute or so, per instructions. When the fluid is all drawn in, you quickly turn off the engine and allow the liquid to soak into the carbon soot on the valves for a certain amount of time. Then drive the vehicle for so many miles. The D-Karbonizer liquid loosens up the soot and driving the vehicle cleans it off quickly. It's sort of a crazy process because when the fluid is drawn in, the engine wants to die so you need someone in the driver seat with the gas pedal to maintain a certian engine rpm. During this time, the exhaust billows out white smoke. It's scary but it works. Safe for catalytic converters, sensors and all.
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July 03, 2013, 08:51:26 am »
Excellent points to remember,,, I think we had a thread on gas pricing earlier,, Gas buddy breaks down the different octanes, but only gives reg, mid, high when looking at the station,, looked quickly, but like Ron says,,, you never go wrong with 87 did not see any with the actual number listed What about the alcohol level??/ I know we are OK with the 10% or less,,,
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I think the E85 gas you see for sale in limited fashion is 85% ethanol /alcohol. It is not good for conventional vehicles though I would think one tank full purchased by accident, burned in a day won't do harm. The vehicle needs to be approved by the manufacture to use this type of fuel. Your vehicle owners manual is the place to get the answer.
All normal fuel can have as much as 10% alcohol without concern for your vehicle. For the PC Ford E350/E450, stay with 87 octane with no more than 10% ethanol and you can't go wrong.
I wonder if you bought cheaper fuel, it might negatively affect your PC's fuel economy such that it would cost you more anyway.
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July 03, 2013, 12:35:36 pm »
My car/truck books for an Audi and a Murano and a Frontier say that the computer cannot deal with E85 and probably will not run on it. Two of them say not to try it and drain it. All three are adamantly against E15 too.
Just for info the "greens" were not the ones against MTBE and substituting grain produced ethanol - can you guess who was for it? Or who is leading the surge for E15?
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