Quote from Tonkadad:
http://globalleadnet.com/143/the-secret-history-of-lead-ethanol-on-the-march
In October 1921, less than two months before he hatched leaded gasoline, Thomas Midgley drove a high-compression-engined car from Dayton to a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Indianapolis, using a gasoline-ethanol blended fuel containing 30 percent alcohol. âAlcohol,â he told the assembled engineers, âhas tremendous advantages and minor disadvantages.â The benefits included âclean burning and freedom from any carbon depositâ¦[and] tremendously high compression under which alcohol will operate without knockingâ¦. Because of the possible high compression, the available horsepower is much greater with alcohol than with gasoline.â
After four yearsâ study, GM researchers had proved it: Ethanol was the additive of choice. Their estimation would be confirmed by others. In the thirties, after leaded gasoline was introduced to the United States but before it dominated in Europe, two successful English brands of gasâCleveland Discoll and Kool Motorâcontained 30 percent and 16 percent alcohol, respectively. As it happened, Cleveland Discoll was part-owned by Ethylâs half-owner, Standard Oil of New Jersey (Kool Motor was owned by the US oil company Cities Service, today Citgo). While their US colleagues were slandering alcohol fuels before Congressional committees in the thirties, Standard Oilâs men in England would claim, in advertising pamphlets, that ethanol-laced, lead-free petrol offered âthe most perfect motor fuel the world has ever known,â providing âextra power, extra economy, and extra efficiency.â
Wow! Your prenatal powers are amazing, maybe you ought to give some props to your Mom.
Times change.
So the the respective enconometrics.
Oil companies have as one of their goals to make money.
agriculture does too.
Unfortunately agriculture did not have a spoksman until I went to Iowa on behalf of the EOP (the President). While there I was ask to attend a small meeting in the basement conference room of the state fair grounds.
i was outflankedby some small farmers.
the meeting was moved since the state troupers conducting traffic for those with whom I was to meet, suggested that it looked like about 3,00 people were going to show by meeting time.
More than that did show.
I was introduced by the Deputy Secretary of Energy (who was in on the deal to circumvent the oil companies).
I listened and I wrote the paper to get the decision to fuck the oil companies and thier lobbists.
I showed econometrically that farmers producing fuel stablized the farm economy and the US economy as well.
The chief asset of fuel production was the protien pulled out of the production loop (where the feedback of energy via water was anopther plus).
DDG replaced the cash crop of the Amish as an induced econometric plus. the Amish produced allegenic free beef (pre sold before inspection and ditribution)
Putting an oxegenated additive into lower octane gasoline has always been a solution as you point out in support of my later efforts for the EOP and agriculture. It also halped fuck the grip the oil companies had on Congress by circomventing the Congressional processes.
currently 77 percent of the American public feels congress id fucking up.
I was a mistake that arrived in the Great Depression. I worked my way through college and saved money by only eating two meals a day for those 6 years of study. As I matured, opportunities came my way. I have only worked at places that recruited me to solve problems.
Read the "STG speech" given by the DOE Secretary at that time. I worte it and rehearsed him to get one question on the table.
Pretend you are an oil company CEO sitting in a chair in a room at the WH. think of what, when you raise your hand, is the Q you are going to ask.
When you get the answer the next thing you do is move on to sign the papers to provide your cooperation to the EOP.
Thank you for your contribution to this thread. you are driving with unleaded gas and if you're intelligent you are using an ethanol additive provided by farmers.
