William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? > > > >>Already been done. The argument worked very well to get rid of lead >>from fuel. > > > A situation where politics and reality meet with less than optimal results. > By coincidence, my cousin, a fellow named Robert Sharpe was a chemical > engineer for Royal Dutch Shell at that time. He was put in charge of a > design team finding a substitute for tetraethyl lead. They came up with a > product called methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). > Several years ago, we got together for a rare extended family dinner, and we > got to talking about motor fuels. I was involved in souping up motorcycles > at the time, so gasoline additives were of some interest to me. > Anyway, as far as he was concerned, MTBE was a movement sideways as far as > noxious additives were concerned.
More like backwards, as far as effects from exhausts are concerned. Particulate lead is much less harmful than some of the stuff that comes out of unleaded, catalysed engines. TEL is at least as nasty as MTBE when you are filling up, though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
