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Greetings,
While I was re-examining some old inherited documents
I came across an Agency Agreement from December, 1931.
On the bottom portion of this legal size document are
definitions of products and what they were to be sold for.
In this section there is a reference to "Green" gasoline.
I have heard of "White" gas, but never "Green" gas.
If you try asking an on-line search engine for an answer,
you get tangled up in the modern definition of "Green".
Can anyone tell me what a 1931 version of "Green" gas is?
Thanks for your answer(s).

Gasoline was sometimes dyed for marketing purposes, especially back when it was sold from pumps that had glass cylinders or sight glasses where the product was visible to the consumer. It was kind of a sales gimmick. Sunoco Blue comes to mind.

From what I've heard from others, Green Gasoline was a low (sub-regular?) grade of gasoline. I've heard of it having been sold by Sinclair, as well as by Deep Rock. I'm sure there may have been others. A good friend of mine has a Sinclair poster advertising Sinclair Green Gasoline for 11 cents a gallon - that's significantly cheaper than a lot of gasolines in the 20s and 30s.

I'd really love to see/have a scan of that document, and I'm sure others here would, too. What does it have to say about Green?

Wes