----- 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. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
