Posted on 07/16/2008 12:48:38 PM PDT by clandestinecandidate
IBTZ!
Why, you signed up today just to post this... bless your pointy little head.
What a load of drivel. MTBE actually caused the driver to get MORE miles per gallaon as opposed to trash ethanol which yields less.
IBTZ
The day is still young!
This screams for a diorama.
I hope the Mod catches you soon! This is an absolutely insane article you have posted and I note this is your first day here. I refuse to say welcome. Happy ZOT!
This is bordering on paranoid delusional. I take that back, the bordering part.
IBTZ! There’s definitely a rubber room reserved in your name.
In 1979, ARCO Chemical built the world’s first chemical plant designed specifically to produce methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), an additive used to replace lead and enhance the octane of oxygenated fuels. In 1994, the Channelview plant was the largest MTBE facility in the world, and ARCO Chemical supplied MTBE to most of the major gasoline manufacturers in the United States.
I don’t think making sense will help.
Hmmm, and who ran the Congress in 1990?
ZOT ALERT!
You must be an editor from THE DAILY KOS! This article is insane and complete garbage.
To a great extent, this article reads like one of those Nigerian e-mails telling me that I am chosen to recieve 1500000 million dollars US.
-In 1990, congress lead by the lobbing efforts of Ken Lay of Enron-
-clean air rules which required a great deal of new refining capacity to be needed in a short period of time-
I’m sure there are other examples, but this article is too long and poorly written to hold my interest.
Lyndon LaRouche?
(Just to make the thread stranger)
Welcome to FR. maybe.
“When I looked at how old man Bush let Saddam invade Kuwait’
Article writer is on crack.
in before the zot!
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether is a source of oxygen added to hydrocarbon based gasoline to insure more complete combustion. That was intended to reduce pollution.
MTBE was removed from gasoline because it is miscible with water and would migrate into the ground water if there were a leak in an underground gasoline storage tank. In ground water it smells bad and has an unpleasant taste.
MTBE was replaced with ethanol as a source of oxygen in gasoline. Ethanol is also miscible with ground water, but it tastes better.
To the best of my knowledge, there never have been any health problems associated with MTBE in anything approaching the concentrations actually used.
MTBE has a lower vapor pressure than ethanol, so less of it evaporates into the atmosphere before combustion. It has a higher energy content than ethanol and it is made from natural gas, not from corn.
True. Somewhere in my memory was the ARCO out in California started using MTBE after leaded gas was banned. And as far as I can recall, the Feds in the early 90s required either MTBE or Ethenol to be used as additives during ozone season (May to Sept) MTBE was mostly a West Coast thing.
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