justin_o_guy2 wrote on 02/06/15 at 07:29:59:http://www.epa.gov/mtbe/gas.htmHA! You,sir, have handed me a tidbit of information I Hope I never forget.
MTBE is not used now, I think,, gotta do more reading.. I think that's what it said, I got excited about the information just BEING there and suddenly, there is more to know about lead.
And maybe they were alcoholics...
Okay,NOW I'm a little unhappy,,, and confused..Blast you Art, it's all YOUR fault.. Why couldn't you just leave me in my blissful ignorance?
Now I'm stuck hunting for information on gasoline from the pre-cataclysmic perverter era. I'm easily getting information on Why to use Regular in engines that don't require premium, but the exact differences between the formulations of todays gas and the pre-converter days just isn't Popping up..
Thanks for the clues,
How is it you were in a position to know that? Just dumb luck? Petroleum engineer? Family members work in a refinery?
I hate TV, or more properly I hate typical television programming on most network (i actually like the science channel, discovery before they wen to 'reality' programming, etc.)
Before I discovered the Internet, I was an inveterate reader (to me the net is sort of like a book you can interact with, with real people in it)
In addition I have mild 'ignoring' ADD, which means if a subject interests me I sort of obsess over it
one of my areas of interest is, or was, hot rodding, and I love tech articles (if HRM published a book of nothing but tech Q&A, I would buy it sight unseen)
so I read a LOT of automotive magazines, with a particular focus on old Iron, and that info was seized on by my brain that remembers the static timing for a '57 Chevy with the Rochester mechanical fuel injection 25 years after tuning one ONCE, but refused to memorize such things as multiplication tables lol
So I am full of odd esoterica like this that not many people give a hoot about
obviously you have a similar thing going on, so having something to research is probably making you very happy, grousing aside