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Gasohol
Well, lemmee give ya a very simple example of cahoots...
First picture the double bottom fuel tanker... He goes to the terminal and loads premium gas for Chevron in the front tanker and premium gas for Shell in the back tanker... The computer adds the dyes, carcinogenic additives, and alcohol, and off he goes... Each company runs advertising on how its premium is better than anyone elses premium because of the companies expertise and care in every step of the production process - and how they search the world for the best crude - and oh yes, they are GREEN to boot... Your gas actually comes from the same generic tank fed off a generic pipeline from a generic refinery, that every branded and unbranded gas station in the area buys from, each putting their own name on it... The FTC is happy with this... The Atty General of the Hew Hess of Hey is happy with this... The states Atty General's are happy with this... Now picture Chivas Regal and Jack Daniels - and it comes to light Woodward and Bernstein strike again that they are not actually fermenting and distilling their own booze but are buying white lightning from an industrial alcohol distillery in Trinidad and Tobaggo same one that supplies it for gasohol and shipping it here in converted petroleum tankers, whereupon they each runit through charcoal, add coloring and flavoring, and each bottle it under their own label... The FTC and the combined Atty Generals will be good with that? No way, mon! There will be executives in hand cuffs testifying in front of Congress... But if it is big oil? - well golly gee it's just a business decision wink, wink, nudge... denny - who is old enough to see the wool over his eyes |
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Gasohol
Peter Dohm wrote:
According to annecdotes that I heard many years ago, service station gas tanks have always contained some water--but since the gasolene is lighter, the water settled to the bottom, so they were able to draw straight gasolene from a floating pickup. According to those annecdotes, there could have been as much as a couple of feet on water below the gasolene before it was drawn of as part of periodic maintenance, with the result that the apparatus were designed to shut off with a considerable level of liquid remaining in the tanks--in order to avoid pumping water. Speaking as someone who pumped gas to earn tuition money back in the early 60s before there was gasahol, we'd 'stick' the tanks daily at closing time to verify the amount in the tanks. There was always some water that was evident at the bottom of the stick, but it was never more than an inch or so. |
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Gasohol
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:26:38 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:38:20 -0400, "Morgans" wrote: I'll bet it really lasts a loooong time in your snow blower, this time of year! ggg And that, indeed, is the point of the exercise! The denatured gasoline evidently starts breaking down in a month. Straight gas in a year. I never drain the tanks on my lawn morwer, snow blower, yard tractor, or push lawn mower. I've never seen car gas break down even after several years. What I have seen is the stuff evaporate in the carburetors and leave a shelac. However I always turn off the gas and run the carbs dry. The next season I turn the gase on, wait a few minutes, prime and pull. They usually start on the first pull. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 forthcoming from HarperCollins www.flyingtigersbook.com |
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Gasohol
The denizens of this ng have known and discussed this for some time now,
sir. WHere have you been? Jim -- There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who count in binary and those who don't "Denny" wrote in message oups.com... The joke on us all is that gas pumped to your local distribution terminal has no alcohol in it... At the distribution terminal are huge tanks of gas, and smaller tnaks of alcohol, dye, additives, etc... The driver pulls up with his tanker... Keys in who the gas is for Shell, Marathon, ETC.and what the octane rating is and the computer selects the appropriate base stock of gasoline and mixes in the proper additives and dyes as it pumps the load to his tanker, including the alcohol... We are being hosed by the oil companies, in cahoots with the government, in more ways than just price... |
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Dave Butler wrote:
Speaking as someone who pumped gas to earn tuition money back in the early 60s before there was gasahol, we'd 'stick' the tanks daily at closing time to verify the amount in the tanks. There was always some water that was evident at the bottom of the stick, but it was never more than an inch or so. The only way we knew it to be "evident" was to put the paste on the stick and note a color change... I used to pump gas in the 70's, later I serviced the pumps and fuel systems themselves (80's)... |
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Gasohol
Sportys used to sell a test kit that contained a chemical that would turn
purple if added to a fuel sample that was gasahol. I have no idea of what the chemical was. It was a very easy to test the fuel. They claim that their supplier no longer exists. I bought a bunch of the kits and have about 1/2 a vial of the chemical left. I sure would like to know what the reagent is that was used. Cheers: Paul N1431A |
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What is the color of the unreacted reagent? Water clear? I'll as the chair
of the chem department what it is and maybe buy a gallon or two and sell it by the vial for only a thousand percent markup {;-) I'm in training to run a pharmaceutical company Jim -- There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who count in binary and those who don't "Tri-Pacer" wrote in message . .. Sportys used to sell a test kit that contained a chemical that would turn purple if added to a fuel sample that was gasahol. I have no idea of what the chemical was. It was a very easy to test the fuel. They claim that their supplier no longer exists. I bought a bunch of the kits and have about 1/2 a vial of the chemical left. I sure would like to know what the reagent is that was used. Cheers: Paul N1431A |
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"Tri-Pacer" wrote:
Sportys used to sell a test kit that contained a chemical that would turn purple if added to a fuel sample that was gasahol. I have no idea of what the chemical was. It was a very easy to test the fuel. They claim that their supplier no longer exists. I bought a bunch of the kits and have about 1/2 a vial of the chemical left. I sure would like to know what the reagent is that was used. Less than $3 a tube... http://www.rectorseal.com/index.php?...product_id=163 http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT...MT4NO=23640151 https://pe.cenex.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=468 http://www.icrc.org/emergency- items/Volume1/07TRA/315TVECFUELWDTC/315TVECFUELWDTC.htm http://www.rectorseal.com/index.php?...product_id=162 |
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Gasohol
Less than $3 a tube...
Don't tell Jim, he'll try to corner the market like the Hunt Bros... See if you'd held onto that silver for 25 years, you'd have something, besides silver... |
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:48:32 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote: What is the color of the unreacted reagent? Water clear? I'll as the chair of the chem department what it is and maybe buy a gallon or two and sell it by the vial for only a thousand percent markup {;-) I'm in training to run a pharmaceutical company Google "Aquatec test strips" Don |
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