As of September 1, 2008 all gasoline must have 10% ethanol by Federal
mandate. So I was told by a Mobil distributor. As always, a really well
thought out Federal mandate. At the same time they raise the CAFE standards
they lower the MPG by mandating ethanol. There was also a bill in Congress
to increase the mandated percentage of ethanol. Guess which lobbying group
was pushing that bill?
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <britbits@netzero.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] gasoline comparison
> When MBTE was first proposed as an additive the local Triumph club
> president
> did a bit of investigation.. according to what he'd come up with the MBTE
> mix was designed for catalyst equipped cars... for non-catalyst equipped
> cars (the bulk of the Triumphs) the incompletely burned emissions were
> actually worse for the environment.
>
> Just another example of poorly researched "science" being foisted on the
> American public. Don't get me started on the R-12 vs R-134 bs.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
> Dallas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Randall
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:02 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] gasoline comparison
>
>
>> Helps the emissions (as the MTBE was supposed to do also!).
>
> Don't kid yourself. For anything made in the last 20 years or so, it does
> absolutely nothing for emissions, as the computer just tweaks the mixture
> richer to compensate for the "oxygenated" fuel.
>
> For most cars made before 1970 or so, it does make them run leaner, which
> does reduce tailpipe emissions.
>
> But that leaves an awful lot of cars in between with fixed mixtures that
> were already tuned lean running on pure gasoline. And it only takes one
> of
> them pushed into lean misfire under cruise conditions, to emit more
> pollution than the oxygenate could reduce in hundreds of pre-computer
> cars.
> Of course eventually they'll burn up the valves and so on, but you'd be
> surprised at the number of them still running around here. And remember,
> these are the only cars where oxygenated fuel is supposed to reduce
> emissions at all.
>
> And of course for Triumphs, we just adjust the mixture to suit the fuel,
> so
> it does no good at all.
>
> Randall in the PRC (People's Republic of California)
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