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I wonder if it was the ethanol. It was a 1999 town car. From what I've read before, cars weren't designed to run ethanol until 2006. The hoses and fuel pump seals could have rotted away. Thanks for nothing EPA morons.
IIRC, ethanol was mandated by Congress as the latest in a long chain of subsidies and favors to ADM and other alcohol producers. Thank Bob Dole.

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