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To: norraad
The refiners have caught on to this trick, they're now pumping extra oxygen into the gasoline like a kid at the soda fountain blowing down his straw.

If you weigh a gallon of gas now it would weigh less than last year, and as a bonus you get to pay more!


Ok, I'll bite. How's that work?

How are they keeping this oxygen that they are pumping into the gasoline from bubbling right back out?
The solubility of oxygen in gasoline is quite low.

Perhaps they are making a froth?
That would not last for more than a few minutes after they quit "pumping" the oxygen.

I'm not sure how the safety guys would feel about them pumping oxygen into the gasoline either. Generally they are trying to keep the oxygen concentration well below the level which supports combustion. They tend to lose money when the refinery blows up, you see.
173 posted on 01/04/2006 8:47:01 AM PST by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
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To: NonLinear
...actually, that trend is reversing.

Look at the recent mine "disaster".

There we're 208 safety violations there, all we get from the presstitutes is heartstring circle jerks.

Yeah, everyone agrees oxygen is dangerous mixed with gasoline("unless it makes money, then will try it until something blows up, then when it blows up we can put in the new design we're working on now that's even more profitable")

174 posted on 01/04/2006 8:35:40 PM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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