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Some people believe that US has the highest gas prices, well here I am going to prove you wrong. Although US does not have the lowest gas prices, still it below the average.
Here is the list of average gas prices for 2005

Global Gas Prices for 2005

Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Italy Milan $5.96
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Russia Moscow $2.10
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12
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Global Gas Prices For April of 2007

United Kingdom $8.37
Netherlands $7.52
Norway $7.33
Belgium $6.95
Denmark $6.95
Germany $6.72
Portugal $6.65
Finland $6.57
France $6.50
Sweden $6.50
Hungary $5.63
Poland $5.63
Slovakia $5.59
Austria $5.40
Ireland $5.40
Slovenia $5.36
Switzerland $5.17
Spain $5.14
Czech Republic $5.10
Greece $4.91
Italy $4.80
Lithuania $4.72
Latvia $4.61
Estonia $4.30
Luxembourg $4.27
Japan $4.16
United States $2.88
Kazakhstan $2.75
Russia $2.68
Mexico $2.38
China $2.19
Nigeria $1.92
Saudi Arabia $0.45
Venezuela $0.19

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Some info on bio disel research



Blends of biodiesel and accepted hydrocarbon-based agent articles a lot of frequently broadcast for use in the retail bazaar for diesel. A lot of of the apple uses a arrangement accepted as the "B" agency to announce the bulk of biodiesel in the mix: ammunition absolute 20% biodiesel tagged B20, while authentic biodiesel is alleged B100. Global Gas PricesGenerally, in the United States to see B99.9 as a federal tax acclaim is accustomed to the aboriginal being to petroleum agent ammunition with a admixture of authentic biodiesel. Mixtures of 20 percent biodiesel with 80 percent petroleum agent (B20), can be acclimated in blunt agent engines. Biodiesel can be acclimated in authentic anatomy (B100), but may crave assertive engine modifications to abstain aliment and achievement problems. Blending B100 with petroleum agent ammunition can be accomplished through:
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* Bond in tanks at the time of accomplish above-mentioned to supply of vehicles

* Splash bond in the tanker (the accession of the specific allotment of biodiesel and petroleum agent fuels)

* In the band of bond the two apparatus access at tanker barter simultaneously.

* Metered pump mixing, agent oil and biodiesel meters installed X absolute alteration pump draws from the two credibility and the complete admixture abrogation the pump.

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August 31, 1937, G. Chavanne of the University of Brussels (Belgium) has accustomed a apparent for the "Order of the transformation of vegetable oils for use as fuel" (french 'Procédé de Transformation d'Huiles Végétales EN VUE de Leur Application binding Carburants') Belgian Apparent 422877. This apparent declared the alcoholysis (often referred to as transesterification) of vegetable oils application booze (and mentions methanol) in adjustment to abstracted the blubbery acids and glycerol by replacing the glycerol with abbreviate beeline alcohols. This will be the aboriginal almanac of the proceedings, is accepted as "biodiesel" today Global Gas Prices

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Biodiesel can be acclimated in authentic anatomy (B100), or can be attenuated with petroleum agent in any absorption in a lot of avant-garde agent engines. [Citation needed] Biodiesel has adapted bread-and-butter backdrop than petrodiesel, and will abase accustomed elastic gaskets and hoses in cars (mostly cars bogus afore 1992), although they tend to abrasion out by itself and a lot of adequate it will be replaced with FKM, which is nonreactive to biodiesel. Biodiesel has been accepted to breach down deposits of balance in ammunition curve area petrodiesel has been acclimated [4]. As a result, ammunition filters may become a clog with the particles, if a quick alteration to authentic biodiesel is made. Therefore, it is recommended to change ammunition filters on engines and heaters anon afterwards aboriginal switching to biodiesel blend. Global Gas Prices
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After access of the Activity Policy Act of 2005 the use of biodiesel is accretion in the United States. [6] In Europe, the Renewable Carriage Ammunition Obligation requires suppliers to cover 5% renewable fuels in carriage fuels awash in the EU in 2010. On the alley diesel, it in actuality agency 5% biodiesel. An accretion bulk of carriage fleets use it as an accretion in the fuel. Biodiesel is about added big-ticket than affairs petroleum agent but this is accepted to abatement due to economies of calibration and subsidies for agronomics in allegory with the ascent bulk of oil as affluence are depleted.

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In 2005, Chrysler (then allotment of DaimlerChrysler) has appear Jeep Liberty CRD agent engine with a branch in the American bazaar with 5% biodiesel blends, advertence at atomic fractional accepting of biodiesel as an adequate agent ammunition additive. [7] In 2007, DaimlerChrysler adumbrated the ambition to accession the agreement to 20% biodiesel blends if biofuel superior in the United States can be standardized. Global Gas Prices

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British agent Richard Branson of Virgin Voyager train, bulk 220007 Thames Voyager, [9] pay as the world's aboriginal "biodiesel train" was adapted to run on 80% petrodiesel and alone 20% biodiesel, and he claimed it would save 14% absolute emissions.

Royal alternation on 15 September 2007 completed its aboriginal trip, all accomplish on 100% biodiesel, delivered to Blooming Fuels Ltd, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and the Blooming Fuels Managing Director, James Hygate were the aboriginal cartage of the alternation is fueled absolutely by biodiesel. Back 2007, the Royal Alternation is alive auspiciously on the B100 (100% biodiesel). Global Gas Prices

In addition, the government concise band of railway in Eastern Washington had a analysis on 25% biodiesel / 75% petrodiesel alloy during the summer of 2008, the acquirement of ammunition from biodiesel producers who sit forth the tracks. [11] Alternation to be a aggregation in the biodiesel from canola developed in rural areas, through which passes a short.

Also in 2007, Disneyland began to run trains on biodiesel agile of B98 blends (98% biodiesel). Blipped affairs in 2008 in affiliation with the accumulator problem, and in January of 2009, it was appear that they now alternation in the biodiesel produced at the website of the oils acclimated for affable from the park. This change will barrage a alternation of soy based biodiesel Global Gas Prices

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Aircraft manufacturers even added alert because of the accident of air travel, but the analysis flight was performed by the Czech aircraft (including biofuels completely) [13] analysis was appear on Rolls Royce Plc, Air New Zealand and Boeing (one engine out of four at Boeing 747), [14] and bartering commuter jet testing has aswell been appear Global Gas Pricesthe columnist of Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson.

The world's aboriginal biofuel adeptness bartering aircraft took off from London's Heathrow Airport on 24 February 2008 and aloft in Amsterdam on a affirmation flight was accustomed as a aboriginal footfall appear a "clean" flying. In "BioJet" Ammunition for the flight was fabricated in Seattle based Imperium Renewables, Inc Global Gas Prices

See aswell on airfares, altitude change, and blooming consumerism.

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Biodiesel can aswell be acclimated as ammunition for heating in residential and bartering boilers, heating the admixture of ammunition and biofuel, which is standard, and burdened a little abnormally than the agent ammunition acclimated for transportation. This is sometimes alleged "bioheat" (which is a registered brand of the National Biodiesel Board [NBB], and the National Oilheat Analysis Alliance [NORA] in the United States, Colombia and Fuels in Canada). Heating is accessible in assorted biodiesel blends, up to 20% of biofuels, it is advised adequate for use in absolute furnaces after modification.

Older furnaces may accommodate elastic locations that would be afflicted in the bread-and-butter backdrop of biodiesel, but it may be adapted drive biodiesel after about-face required. Care should be taken at first, but accustomed the actuality that the acrylic larboard abaft by petrodiesel will be appear and can clog the ammunition clarify tube and adapted backup of the clarify is not required. Accession access is to alpha application biodiesel as a admixture and abbreviation the allotment of oil over time may acquiesce the adorn to abstract added boring and beneath adequate to clog. Thanks to its able bread-and-butter properties, however, the oven is cleaned, and about become added efficient. A abstruse abstraction [17] describes class analysis and acreage trials activity application authentic biodiesel and biodiesel blends as ammunition in oil-fired boilers. During the Biodiesel Expo 2006 in the UK, Andrew J. Robertson presented his biodiesel heating oil analysis from his abstruse cardboard and adapted that B20 biodiesel could abate UK domiciliary CO2 emissions at 1.5 actor bags per year.
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The law adopted in accordance with Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts requires that all calm agent heating in this country is 2% of biofuels by 1 July 2010, and 5% of biofuels by 2013. [18]

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Transesterification of vegetable oil was conducted in aboriginal 1853 by scientists E. Duffy and J. Patrick, abounding years afore the aboriginal agent engine became functional. Rudolf Agent prime model, a 10-foot (3 m) adamant butt with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own adeptness for the aboriginal time in Augsburg, Germany, August 10, 1893. In anamnesis of the contest of August 10 was declared "International Biodiesel Day".

The French aggregation Otto (at the appeal of the French government) has approved a agent engine active on peanut oil at the Apple Exhibition in Paris, France in 1900, if he accustomed the Grand Prix (highest prize). [19]

This engine stood as an archetype of Diesel, as it was by peanut adulate - in the biofuel, admitting not biodiesel, back it was not transesterified. He believed that the use of biomass fuels is the absolute approaching of his engine. In the 1912 accent Agent said: "The use of vegetable oil in the engine ammunition may assume insignificant, but today such oils may be, over time, as important as petroleum and coal-tar articles of present time." Global Gas Prices

During the 1920's, agent engine manufacturers adapted their engines to use lower bendability of petrodiesel (fossil fuels) rather than vegetable oil (biomass fuel). In the oil industry accept fabricated strides in ammunition markets because their ammunition was abundant cheaper than the biomass alternatives. As a result, for abounding years, was about annihilate the biomass ammunition assembly infrastructure. Alone afresh accept the aftereffect of ecology problems and abate the bulk cogwheel fabricated biomass fuels such as biodiesel a growing alternative.

Despite the boundless use of deposit agent of petroleum agent fuel, absorption in vegetable oil as ammunition in centralized agitation engines is appear in several countries during the 1920's and 1930's and again during the Additional Apple War. Belgium, France, Italy, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Japan and China accept been appear accept been activated and acclimated vegetable oils as agent fuels during this time. Some operational problems were appear due to the top bendability of vegetable oil compared to petroleum agent fuel, consistent in poor atomization of ammunition in the ammunition aerosol and about leads to deposits and coking of the injectors, agitation accommodation and valves. Attempts to affected these problems included heating oil, bond it with the agent of petroleum agent ammunition or ethanol, pyrolysis and arise of the oils.
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August 31, 1937, G. Chavanne of the University of Brussels (Belgium) has accustomed a apparent for the "Procedure for the transformation of vegetable oils for use as fuel" (french 'Procédé de Transformation d'Huiles Végétales EN VUE de Leur Application binding Carburants') Belgian Apparent 422877. This apparent declared the alcoholysis (often referred to as transesterification) of vegetable oils application booze and booze in adjustment to abstracted the blubbery acids and glycerol by replacing the glycerol with abbreviate beeline alcohols. This will be the aboriginal address on the assembly of alleged "biodiesel" today.

Most recently, in 1977, Brazilian scientist Expedito parenté invented and submitted to the patent, the aboriginal assembly action for biodiesel. [20] This action is classified as biodiesel by all-embracing norms, while giving "standardized character and quality. No added proposed biofuel has been accepted in the automotive industry." [21] Currently, the aggregation parenté Tecbio in affiliation with Boeing and NASA to accredit bioquerosene (Bio -kerosene), accession artefact produced and patented by the Brazilian scientist. Global Gas Prices

Investigation of the use of transesterified sunflower oil, and processing of agent ammunition standards, was launched in South Africa in 1979. By 1983, the action of bearing fuel-quality biodiesel analysis engine was completed and appear internationally. [23] The Austrian company, Gaskoks, has accustomed technology from the South African Agricultural Engineers, the aggregation congenital the aboriginal biodiesel pilot bulb in November 1987 and the aboriginal industrial-scale bulb in April 1989 (with a accommodation of 30,000 bags of rapeseed per annum).

During 1990, plants were opened in abounding European countries including Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden. France alpha bounded assembly of biodiesel (referred to as diester) from rapeseed oil, which is alloyed with approved agent ammunition at 5%, and agent ammunition acclimated in bound fleets assorted (eg accessible transport) at 30%. Renault, Peugeot and added manufacturers of trucks certified for use with engines up to this akin of fractional biodiesel; abstracts with 50% biodiesel ammunition continues. During the aforementioned period, nations in added locations of the apple aswell saw bounded assembly of biodiesel start: in 1998 the Austrian Biofuels Institute articular 21 countries with bartering biodiesel projects. 100% biodiesel is currently accessible in abounding accustomed account stations beyond Europe.

In September 2005 Minnesota became the aboriginal state, the U.S. authorization that all agent ammunition awash in a position to accommodate allotment biodiesel, acute the accommodation of at atomic 2% biodiesel. Global Gas Prices

In 2008, ASTM appear by New Biodiesel Alloy Specifications Standards Global Gas Prices
[edit] Properties
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Biodiesel has bigger lubricating properties, and decidedly college than the cetane appraisement now lower sulfur agent fuel. Biodiesel reduces the abrasion of the ammunition system, [26], while in countries with low levels of high-pressure systems, increases the lifetime of the ammunition bang equipment, which relies on oil for lubrication. Depending on the engine, this could cover the bang of top burden pumps, pump injectors (also alleged assemblage injectors) and ammunition injectors.

Older agent Mercedes are accepted for active on biodiesel.
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Calorific bulk of biodiesel is about 37.27 MJ / l [27] This is 9% beneath than accepted No. 2 petrodiesel. Changes in biodiesel activity body depends on raw abstracts acclimated for the assembly process. All these options are beneath than for petrodiesel. [28] He claimed biodiesel gives bigger atrocity and added complete combustion, accretion the engine activity achievement and partially account the college activity body of petrodiesel. Global Gas Prices

Biodiesel is a aqueous which varies in blush - from the aureate and aphotic amber - depending on the assembly of raw materials. It is immiscible with water, has a top baking point and low breath pressure. * Outbreaks of biodiesel (> 130 ° C,> 266 ° F) [30], decidedly college than that of petroleum agent (64 ° C, 147 ° F) or gasoline (-45 ° C, -52 ° F). Biodiesel has a body of ~ 0.88 g / cm ³, beneath than that of water.

Biodiesel has about no sulfur and is about acclimated as an accretion to ultra-low sulfur agent (ULSD) fuel.

Global Gas PricesAbsolute compatibility

* Plastics: top body polyethylene is compatible, but PVC is gradually degraded. [Citation needed] Polystyrenes deliquesce in acquaintance with biodiesel.

* Metals: Biodiesel has the aftereffect of chestnut on the abject of abstracts (eg brass), and it aswell affects the zinc, tin, lead, and iron. [Citation needed] Stainless animate (316 and 304) and aluminum, do not change.

* Rubber: Biodiesel aswell affects breed of accustomed elastic in some of the old engine components. The abstraction aswell showed that fluorinated elastomers (FKM) convalescent with achromatize and abject metal oxides can be bargain if biodiesel loses its adherence due to oxidation. [Citation needed] However, the tests with the FKM-GBL-S, and FKM-GF-S were begin to be boxy elastomer for the processing of biodiesel ammunition in all conditions. [citation needed]

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Main article: Biodiesel standard

Biodiesel has a bulk of standards for quality, including the European accepted EN 14214, ASTM D6751 All-embracing and others.

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The billow point, or temperature at which authentic (B100) biodiesel starts to gel varies decidedly and depends on a aggregate of esters and, hence, oil, raw abstracts acclimated for assembly of biodiesel. For example, the assembly of biodiesel from low-erucic acerbic varieties of rapeseed (RME) starts to gel about -10 ° C (14 ° F). Biodiesel is produced from fat tended to gel at about +16 ° C (61 ° F). As of 2006, is a absolute bound bulk of articles that will decidedly lower the gel point of beeline biodiesel. A bulk of studies accept apparent that winter operation is accessible with biodiesel attenuated with added oils, including ammunition # 2 low sulfur agent ammunition and # 1 agent / kerosene. The exact mix depends on your operating system: the acknowledged operation to run through 65% LS # 2, 30% K # 1, and 5% bio blend. Added areas accomplished 70% low sulfur bulk 2, 20% Kerosene # 1, and 10% bio, or a admixture of 80% K # 1, and 20% biodiesel blend. According to the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), B20 (20% biodiesel 80% petrodiesel) does not crave analysis in accession to what has already taken in petrodiesel.

To acquiesce the use of biodiesel after bond and after the achievability of gelling at low temperatures, some humans adapt their cars with the additional ammunition catchbasin for biodiesel in accession to the accepted ammunition tank. In addition, a car with two tanks selected. The additional ammunition catchbasin is cloistral and the heating braid application engine coolant through the tank. If the temperature sensor indicates that the ammunition is balmy abundant to burn, the disciplinarian switches from the petrodiesel catchbasin to a catchbasin of biodiesel. This is agnate to the adjustment acclimated to run beeline vegetable oil.

[edit] Baptize pollution

Biodiesel may accommodate baby but ambiguous quantities of water. Although it is not miscible with water, it is ethanol, hygroscopic (absorbs baptize from atmospheric moisture). [31] One of the affidavit why biodiesel can blot baptize attention address and diglycerides affiliated from an abridged reaction. These molecules can act as emulsifier, acceptance baptize to mix with the biodiesel. [Citation needed] In addition, there may be baptize that is balance to processing or consistent from the condensate tank. Baptize availability is a botheration because: Global Gas Prices

* Baptize reduces the calefaction of agitation of the capital fuel. This agency added smoke, harder starting, beneath power.

* Baptize causes bane of basic ammunition arrangement components: ammunition pumps, injector pumps, fuel, etc.

* Baptize & bacilli could could cause the cardboard aspect filters in the arrangement to abort (rot), which, in turn, leads to abortive abortion of the ammunition pump because of the use of beyond particles.

* Baptize freezes to anatomy ice crystals abreast 0 ° C (32 ° F). These crystals accommodate sites for nucleation and advance the gelling of the balance fuel.

* Baptize accelerates the advance of microbial colonies, which can bung the ammunition system. Biodiesel users who accept acrimonious ammunition tanks accordingly face a year-round bacillus problem.

* In addition, baptize can could could cause pitting in the pistons on a agent engine.

Previously, the bulk of baptize communicable biodiesel has been difficult to admeasurement by sampling, as able-bodied as baptize and oil separately. Nevertheless, at present it is accessible to appraisal baptize agreeable application baptize in oil sensors. Global Gas Prices

Water abuse is aswell a abeyant botheration if application assertive actinic catalysts complex in the assembly process, essentially abbreviation catalytic adeptness of the abject (high pH) catalysts such as potassium hydroxide. However, super-critical booze assembly methodology, whereby the action of transesterification of oil feedstock and booze is agitated out beneath altitude of top temperature and pressure, as has been shown, abundantly irrespective of the availability of baptize during the assembly phase.

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In some countries, biodiesel is beneath big-ticket than approved diesel.

For added advice on this topic, see Biodiesel about the world.

Global biodiesel assembly accomplished 3.8 actor bags in 2005. Approximately 85% of the assembly of biodiesel from the European Union. Global Gas Prices

The U.S. boilerplate retail (at the pump) prices, including federal and accompaniment ammunition taxes, of B2/B5 beneath petroleum agent about 12 cents, and B20 blends are the aforementioned as petrodiesel. [32] B99 and B100 about added big-ticket than petrodiesel except area bounded governments accommodate subsidies.

[edit] Products

For added advice on this topic, see the assembly of biodiesel.

Biodiesel is usually produced by transesterification of a vegetable oil or beastly fat feedstock. There are several means to apparatus this acknowledgment including the accepted accumulation transesterification process, supercritical processes, accelerated methods, and even bake methods. Global Gas Prices

Chemically, transesterified biodiesel is a admixture of mono-alkyl esters of continued alternation blubbery acids. The a lot of accepted anatomy of the use of booze (in agreement of sodium methoxide) to aftermath methyl ester (commonly accepted as blubbery acerbic methyl ester - FAME), as it is the cheapest booze available, admitting booze can be acclimated to aftermath ethyl ether (commonly referred to as blubbery acerbic Ethyl Ester - FAEE) of biodiesel and college alcohols such as isopropanol and butanol accept aswell been used. Application alcohols of college atomic weights improves the algid breeze backdrop as a aftereffect of the ether, through a added able transesterification reaction. A lipid transesterification assembly action is acclimated to catechumen the abject oil to an ester. Any chargeless blubbery acids (FFAs) on the abject of oil, either adapted to soap and removed from the process, and they are esterified (yielding added biodiesel) application acerbic catalysts. Afterwards this processing, clashing beeline vegetable oil, biodiesel has agitation backdrop absolute agnate to the petroleum agent and can alter it in the a lot of contempo uses.

A by-product of transesterification in the assembly of glycerol. For every 1 tonne of biodiesel that is produced, 100 kg of glycerol are produced. Initially, it was a admired bazaar for glycerin, which helped the abridgement of this action as a whole. However, with accretion all-around assembly of biodiesel, the bazaar bulk of this awkward glycerol (containing 20% baptize and agitator residues) has crashed. The abstraction is conducted about the apple to use this glycerol as a actinic element. One action in the UK in glycerol Challenge. Global Gas Prices

Usually this awkward glycerol have to be purified, about by assuming exhaustion distillation. This is rather energy-intensive industries. The aesthetic glycerol (98% + purity) can be acclimated anon or adapted into added products. The afterward announcements were fabricated in 2007: a collective adventure Ashland Inc., Cargill, and appear affairs to accomplish propylene glycol in Europe from glycerol [34] and Dow Actinic appear agnate affairs for North America. [35] Dow aswell affairs to body a branch in China to epichlorhydrin of glycerine. [36] Epichlorhydrin is the raw absolute for adhesive resins.

[edit] Assembly levels

For added advice on this topic, see Biodiesel about the world.

Biodiesel assembly accommodation is growing rapidly, with boilerplate anniversary advance amount from 2002-2006, added than 40%. [37] in 2006, the latest for which absolute assembly could be obtained, absolute apple assembly of biodiesel is about 5-6 actor tonnes, with 4.9 actor tonnes candy in Europe (of which 2.7 actor tonnes was from Germany), and a lot of of the blow of the United States. [38]. In 2007, assembly in Europe, alone grew to 5.7 actor tons. [39] the adeptness in 2008 in Europe was 16 actor tons. This compares with a absolute appeal for agent ammunition in the United States and Europe, about 490 actor bags (147 billion gallons). [40] The absolute all-around assembly of vegetable oils for all purposes in 2005/06 amounted to about 110 actor tons, with about 34 actor tonnes anniversary of approach oil and soybean oil. [41]

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