Thanks for the Info, Bill, I hope that yourself and family are safe from
the fires.
Jim Knox, 91 Dak first year Gen 2, original owner, 318LA
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Decrease in gas mileage
>
> > That has never made sense to me. If you loose 2 mpg and you get
20 mpg
> > and now you get 18. You just increase consumption by 10% per mile, NOW
if it
> > burns cleaner by 5% you just increased pollution by 5% more per mile
with the
> > oxygenator.. Don't make sense to me. "Sir Bill"
>
> I'd give you odds it wasn't actually someone who gives a rip about the
> environment who decided that's what they should do.
>
> Consider yourself lucky that you only have to deal with that crap for half
> of the year. Here in California, they still change the formulation in the
> winter, but we have shitty MTBE oxygenate in our gas all year round. And
> guess what? One of the excuses that the refineries and gas companies use
> as an excuse for the historically higher gas prices here is the added cost
> of using MTBE. Well, guess what else? MTBE is an industrial waste
product
> that is completely worthless for anything else. The industries that
produce
> it will more or less pay the gas companies to take it so that they don't
have
> to pay someone else to dispose of it.
>
> What's worse is that having an oxygenate in the gas is supposed to be
"better"
> for the environment... And yet, for some reason, they've been finding MTBE
> pollution in the Alaskan snow pack for several years now. Any ideas where
> it's been coming from? You guessed it.
>
> -Bill
>
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