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- From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG (super unleaded?)
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:46:05 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:
- >In rec.autos.tech, jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
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- >>Methyl teriary butyl ether, CH3*O*C4H9, a very high octane fuel that
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- >How does a chemical that only supplies 1 O atom, but requires
- >as many as 10 O atoms for a fully combusted (H2O and CO2) product yield
- >a lower amount of pollutants at the end? Or are we just switching the
- >types of pollutants around? (Forgive me if this has been answered previously,
- >but, like so many, I just tuned in.)
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- The gas burns more slowly and completely, which I believe will yield
- fewer NOx emmissions and more CO2.
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- One thing that just occurred to me is that by dropping fuel efficiency
- by 10% or more you boost fuel tax revenue by the same amount. Hmm.
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- jim frost
- jimf@centerline.com
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