Sigh... ethanol is a gasoline stabilizer that has been used since the 1920s... it was replaced by an idioicly stupid lead based chemical and the burning of gasoline with this stabilizer proceeded to literally poison the entire planet with lead.
When this lead based chemical was finally removed in the 70s, gasoline returned to using Ethanol as its stabilizer.
I really wish people were not so ignorant of ethanol’s history as a gasoline stabilizer.
Lead was used as an octane enhancer and valve seat lubricant.
Ethanol is hydroscopic and thus in no way a stabilizer. Methane is toxic and really hell on all sorts of rubber/plastic.
Keep it out of my gasoline.
it was replaced by an idioicly stupid lead based chemical and the burning of gasoline with this stabilizer proceeded to literally poison the entire planet with lead.
Tetraethyl lead "Ethyl" was used as an octane booster, not as a stabilizer. It prevented engine 'knock' and enabled higher compression ratios in World War II aircraft engines (both Allied and German) and later in muscle cars. It also helped protect the valves.
Least was used to boost octake and also lubricated valves.
Can you link documentation to support your post?
It was a bad idea then and it is a bad idea now. Your pendantic lecture and sighing added no usefull knowledge the current debate about the government forcing us to buy a product we do not need or want and transferring our wealth to its producers.
The use of leaded has did not poison the entire planet with lead. The ill effects of increases in aromatics and other pollutants has been ignored. The ill effects of ethanol and its production have been ignored.
Shill for the enthanol lobby on some other forum.
Anhydrous Isopropyl Alcohol perhaps?