Well, I once lived and worked in the gas fields of New Mexico, four corners area.
There are gas treatment stations on the pipelines headed out from the producing gas wells
which condense “drip gas” out of the natural gas, and deposit it into tanks.
This gas is presumably picked up and taken to refineries and made into real gasoline.
So, we used to help ourselves at the spigots available on the sides of the huge tanks, and fill a gas can.
Cars won’t normally run on this stuff, but at the time my 51 Chevy carryall had a very worn out GMC 248
in it, and it ran just fine. I was never sure why, but I figured it was because it had little compression.
Compression or not , I drove it all over the west that way, and enjoyed it.( I really only stole a can or two of drip gas).
But then I put in a good 235, and , man, it just pinged and rattled frighteningly on that hot juice fresh from the ground!
Gave that up quick……..
1974, we know how cheap gas was then.
