For more info visit - Angelfire.com/art2/fontaine Do you know that there is a chemical additive to gasoline that adds 20% more miles traveled to a gallon of fuel? I doubt that you do because there has been a media blackout of this story for near 15 years. You are probably thinking that there must be a negative side to using this additive that makes it unreasonable to use. Would you be surprised if I told you that it also eliminates 70% of harmful emissions from exhaust fumes? Of course you would. What about if I told you that it would also allow you to drive your car longer with less repairs because it also makes your engine run smoother and more efficiently. Would you then believe that there still must be something wrong with it or you would have heard about it? What if I told you that this same additive is used to make bubble gum chewy and is approved by the FDA as a food additive? Would you still be looking for a reasonable explanation why you haven't heard about it? I mean at least you would have heard about it from environmentalist if it was that good, even if the oil companies didn't want you to know about it, right? Maybe you are thinking it is too expensive, but then it is used in bubble gum, while bubble gum is cheap? Maybe you are thinking it must take such large quantities to use it that it could never successfully be implemented in a fuel products program? No way. It only takes a few tables spoons to a tank of gasoline to work effectively. It is cheap and easy to produce and could solve much of the worlds problems if it were in use right now but the worlds banking institutions have over extended themselves based on sales of pharmaceuticals and medical services in the US and around the world where an additive like this would allow for too great an advancement towards better human health, where investors in these enterprises would lose their shirts. For most investment ventures, this would be a byproduct of competition and risk associated with investing in a progressive market but the people behind this scam on the human race and our earth is being conducted by people who see themselves as owners and inherent masters of our race. There is an additive that you can find information out about, two of them actually, and these two additives have been or are widely used. They are MTBE and ethanol. Both of these additives worsen air quality significantly, poison groundwater throughout the nation, cause dramatic changes in weather patterns in regions where they are used, contribute to global warming at an alarming rate, and cause you car to get less gas mileage than if no additive were used. The one benefit that both these additives have is that they cause numerous health maladies in people that are exposed to them in drinking water and exhaust fumes where the proper testing that is required by law has never been done. This results in physicians not knowing anything about what to look for as it relates to health issues related to these carcinogens where they prescribe medications for what the symptoms resemble. This results in huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry. Trillions of dollars in profits. Right now, these issues are the hottest commodity in Washington, DC. I am an activist whose health was ruined by MTBE. I was arrested last year by federal agents and flown from Washington, DC to Houston and held for 13 months without a trial or bond to stop me from interrupting the passage of a bill that would make it impossible for Americans to sue the oil companies for what they have done. The war with Iraq was being used as cover for getting the bill passed where Americans would be too distracted by the war to give notice to a complicated topic they knew nothing about. I beat the federal government in Houston and the bill also never passed due to my efforts. Pressure needs to put on Washington and the news media to tell the truth about Polyisobutylene, the good additive, and what it could do for our planet and future. For more information, visit my website at Angelfire.com/art2/fontaine
You can tout the merits of this whatsit all you want, but until you answer this question that you posed yourself, I'll assume that there's some sort of catch involved.
I actually remember my dad telling me about that experiment a while ago, I remember there was something about "the experiment was easy enough to conduct that a 10 year old could have done it" (I was about 10 at the time I think?) so it interested me. I had forgotten about it, but now that you mention it does seem VERY suspicious that it totally got dropped off the news.
I don't believe there is a catch to this additive. It is used to clean up oil spills. It is a polymer. A polymer is like a hardener additive like in an Epoxy glue kit where there is two tubes that you mix together while one of those tubes contains a hardener, or polymer. When added to a crude oil spill, it causes the oil to coagulate, or clot up, so the oil doesn't spread and dissolve. It makes it easy to clean up with vacuum like pumps. What polyisobutylene does is it tightens the molecular structure of gasoline, or any oil product, so that it combusts more efficiently. It is like when gunpowder is burned without being contained in a metal shell, it just makes a big sparkly flame. But when it is encased in a metal shell, it explodes. This higher rate of combustion causes more of components of gasoline to burn and turn into inert carbon byproducts instead of coming back out the tailpipe unburned fuel. This creates less pollution and more power. Gasoline and many other crude oil products are simply unfinished products put out on the market as defective products, unless polyisobutylene is mixed with it. It was originally developed by the military as an additive to jet fuel so that it would be less volatile, or gaseous. This helps to prevent explosions during crashes and during the fueling process where there are a lot of dangerous fumes that escape into the air. It is used in shops where workers are exposed to a lot of petroleum products to make them less gaseous. It makes gasoline less volatile where a lot of pollution contributing to low level ozone comes from fumes from evaporating gases from gasoline. The catch is that using Polyisobutylene would hurt the pharmaceutical and medical services industry that rely on people being exposed to highway pollution to keep their stock values high, and big polluting industries need automobile pollution to blame what they cause with their irresponsible plants with smog. Environmentalist need to be able to complain about fossil fuels in order to keep their following of young little eager beaver activists following them around like they are gods, while they also need the issue to keep donation drives healthy. If polyisobutylene was instituted on a massive scale, there would be nowhere left to focus to further rid our environment of pollutants other than to force polluters to clean up their production plants. This is not a complicated process. The only reason it doesn't get done by the polluters is because pharmaceutical sales is by far the most lucrative enterprise in the world with profit margins that can reach into the thousands of percents. The owners of these plants all invest heavily in pharmaceutical and medical services industries and know what would happen if they clean up their plants. The environmentalist leadership is also keenly aware that if the proper steps were taken, environmental issues would become old hat in a very short period of time while they have all taken out huge mortgages on their homes and have no other way to pay for their lifestyle. They also have become addicted to their position of power in society. If you look at any government agency that is created to solve any particular issue, you find that a few years after the agency is created, the problem it was designed to solve gets worse. This is because once a large amount of money is designated to solve a problem, the solvers are given a paycheck. They then take that paycheck to the bank and get a loan for a home they could never have afforded before they took on this new responsibility. The loan is usually for thirty years. If they actually solve the problem they were hired to attend to, they have no way to pay off the loan. If the problem gets worse, they get a raise and a position of with more power and less work within that agency, and they can go buy a new home in a better neighborhood and a Lexus. There is no incentive in the issue related solving process to actually fix something, in fact the incentive process points in the opposite direction. What needs to change is that if a group of people are assigned a task of finding a solution for a social ill, that they understand that once the task is completed successfully, they get to go home with a raise and keep their paycheck for the rest of their life, while they can then go out and find another job, solving some other social ill, so one day if they are able to solve all the worlds problems, they can retire rich without ever engaging a corrupt process. If a problem comes up with a solution they have created that lead to them retiring early, they have to go back to work but the paycheck keeps coming. What do you think of that noise; that is some wicked badass shit right there isn't it.
The reason you most likely don't hear much about it as an addative is its cost. According to my chemical index it runs about $425.60 per kilogram. It may be great for the gas but gas is a lot cheaper than the addative.