Yeah, you got it. And it can be done easily, as easy as they refine it now with no more expense than it already takes to produce gasoline. Are you sitting down. It can also be refined to produce 70 percent less pollution. And so can diesel fuel. OK, wipe the sweat from your forehead.
You ready? Both of these refining processes are the same one.
Hold onto your hat for this next one. It’s a doozy. The oil companies have known how to do this for over fifty years. Yup, that ain’t no lie.
This is how it works. Gasoline is all about octane. Octane is the thinning of gasoline so that it mixes easier with oxygen in the combustion chamber so it burns more efficiently without causing the motor to knock. Too much octane causes the engine to stretch the burn out the length of the piston so that it’s still burning when the exhaust valve opens. To little and it doesn’t ignite.
But this refining process thickens gasoline eliminating the whole octane theory altogether. With just a few drops per gallon of gasoline, polyisobutylene wraps itself around each molecule of fuel causing it to become like a tank of BB pellets that when injected into the piston chamber, separate evenly into same <myspace>size</myspace> droplets that ignite uniformly all at once when the spark plug ignites it.
It’s like what happens to gunpowder when wrapped in paper or metal. Instead of burning, it explodes exerting nothing but force which gives more power, hence the extra mileage, and burns fuel more completely which results in less pollution. In fact the pollutants coming from fossil fuels, other than carbon dioxide, are simply unburned fuel vapors which have failed to be converted into power.
I can hear you thinking I am crazy, that if this were true, it would solve the energy crisis the world is experiencing now as well as the global warming problem. And I get that, a lot. So you have to hear the rest of the story to understand what the truth is.
In 1989, a chemist named Paul Waters was working on an additive to jet fuel that would make it less volatile so it was less prone to ignite during refueling or in the event of a crash. He was working for a company that sells polyisbutylene (PIB) to be added to crude oil that has spilled in waterways which causes it to thicken so it can be vacuumed from the water.
While working on his experiments, he decided to see what PIB would do when added to gasoline. He used an eggbeater mixing different ratios of PIB until he came up with a mixture that gave these beneficial qualities of more mileage with less pollution.
Upon announcing his discovery, it caused the environmentalist community to demand George Bush, the first one, to force the oil companies to add PIB to gasoline. This laid the foundation for the creation of the Clean Air Act of 1990.
I was homeless at the time living under a bridge by the Capital Beltway outside Washington DC. I had noticed when I went jogging that I tasted blood in my throat when I exerted myself too hard. I was concerned for the quality of the air I was breathing so I followed the story intently in The Washington Times newspaper. The Washington Post didn’t cover the story, nor did any other news source. And the Times has now removed them from their database so the only way to verify it is to track down a hardcopy version of the article.
A few months before I read about this additive, which gave me great hope that I would be able to continue to live in the woods wandering the streets getting drunk and raising hell until I was old and gray, I had read about another addictive that would cause smog to dissolve and float up into the sky where it would bake into inert pollutants that would later dump into the Atlantic Ocean after riding the jet stream east where it would turn into rain. That idea didn’t go over very well.
I was curious about it but it sounded a little over the top. Cars weren’t major contributors to the smog problems this additive was suppose to solve. It was diesel engines and coal fired smoke stacks. There are ways to clean up coal plant emissions that aren’t popular because they cost money. It was also known that diesel fuel can be refined to give off less pollution, which seemed more reasonable. And who would know if the pollution that was going to be dumped in the ocean would be safe for aquatic life.
The next additive that came along was PIB which sounded like the obvious answer not only to deal with pollution problems but give the world a lot more mileage from the fossil fuels. It would mean the equivalent of finding twenty percent more fuel coming from crude oil without doing anything but adding a few drops of PIB to each gallon of gasoline.
So the PIB discovery led to debate over the Clean Air Act of 1990. Bush was trying to become an environmental President leading up to the election in 1990. He came out with his fists gloved like he was actually going to force the oil industry to add PIB to gasoline. When he came back saying they refused to use it, I was clueless. That was supposed to be the point where he supported legislation to force them to use it but he acted like they were just too stubborn to get around to doing it.
Him and the environmentalist community went back and forth over PIB for a while to the point when the Clean Air Act debate was about to slip into the same abyss that every other piece of legislation had fallen into with a Republican in the White House and congress being controlled by Democrats. This threatened both parties since nothing had come out of Washington that was of any substance in a long time so that both parties were becoming irrelevant by not being able to get anything done.
On the eve of the bill heading to the waste basket, 258 million dollars was donated to a slush fund by major polluting corporations which was to support the failing environmentalist community who had leaned too far to the left that they had fell out of favor with most Americans. This influx of new cash and goodwill spurned a great gathering of liberals and conservatives who laid down together admitting that they all had to live on the same planet and needed to learn to get along so they could all be good stewards of the environment in the future.
The left admitted they had politicized a few issues while industry called for more responsibility in protecting Mother Nature. Soon after this orgy of political parley ended, a new additive to gasoline called MTBE was proposed that the oil industry supported using that wasn’t as good as PIB but was reported to be almost as good, and it had PIB in it. It had been reported to have been discovered by a chemist in Houston in his mother’s apartment kitchen while it has long been reported to have been a European discovery and the patent is held by a Swiss corporation.
The left had their money. The right had the confidence of the public that they cared about Bambi and the Little Mermaid trying find their way from the earth’s pristine forests and seas to between the covers of our children’s fairytale bedtime stories.
The sticking point was the scientific community who didn’t trust that this new additive MTBE, methyl tert butyl ether, was such a hot idea. It was widely accepted that it would pollute groundwater wherever it leaked or was dumped while its benefits to air quality was called into question. As the bill was on the verge of heading to the trash heap of legislative history a second time, Bush announced he would appoint a blue ribbon panel to the EPA to look into the concerns of the scientific community and would revisit using PIB if MTBE turned out to be too great of a problem.
The major roadblock for not using PIB was the patent being held by the pentagon since its benefits as a fossil fuel additive were discovered while working on a defense contract. To allow the patent to be released to the public was a ten year bureaucratic process that Bush could sign a waiver to allow it to be used immediately. But for whatever reason, he didn’t think he should do such a thing.
Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. We were preparing to run him out of there in the first gulf war so no one was paying any attention to the Clean Air Act debate, except me and a reporter at the Washington Times.
Basically what happened after the legislation was passed was that everyone involved in the process walked away from it never looking back because it was too ridiculous to want to be associated with, except of course the parties who were most interested in MTBE being added to gasoline which was Ken Lay of Enron, Halliburton, then Senator Phil Gramm from Texas, and his wife Wendy, and of course Bush.
You see MTBE is produced from natural gas, and isobutylene which is a very toxic byproduct of refining crude oil that the oil industry has an overabundance of that it dumps into the atmosphere which causes a lot of problems for human health, weather patterns around the Gulf of Mexico, and the overall quality of the environment, as well as upsets the EPA.
Natural gas was regulated at the time this all began so that its prices remained steady which made it expensive to use. It was reported then that the US had enough gas reserves to serve our needs for over a hundreds years, under the existing regulations. But Bush and his friends from Texas had fought long and hard to get it deregulated because they had easy access to so much more gas than they could sell.
But even after deregulating it, there was still a lack of infrastructure to support the use of a lot more natural gas. So these millionaires seeking to make their first billions found a way to sell it by turning it into methanol and mixing it with problematic ethers from oil refining to come up with MTBE.
A major byproduct of burning MTBE is formaldehyde which is a precursor to low level ozone when mixed in the sun’s rays with nitrogen oxides, smog, which is caused by diesel engines and coal fired smoke stacks. And low level ozone formation has a volatile effect on water vapor causing it to rise higher into the atmosphere than normal so that it enters the jet stream where it heads out over the Atlantic ocean and falls as rain.
Hmmm. Doesn’t that sound like the first additive that I read about that the oil industry had proposed that no one thought was a good idea? Hey that was smart of you to catch that. In fact that’s exactly what it was. And we bought it without having clue that it had been slipped into the Clean Air Act under the cover of the Iraq war distracting the news media from picking up the story.
But the important thing to understand is that MTBE would never have had a chance as a gasoline additive if it wasn’t discovered that PIB added to gasoline gives better mileage with less pollution and PIB wasn’t used in producing MTBE. Well really it never would have passed environmental muster if it weren’t for the 258 million dollar slush fund set up for environmentalists organizations, which allowed the donators of the money the right to appoint their own people to the boards of directors of our environmental watch dogs so corporate heads could oversee the future of environmental issues, which is why you don’t know anything about this story today.
Another twist in the story was who was going to pay to build refineries to produce enough MTBE to add to gasoline nationwide eventually at 15% year round.
OK, let me back it up. It was reported in the beginning that MTBE was only to be for used at 11 percent during winter months in cold regions where it would prevent old vehicles without emissions systems from emitting carbon monoxide when warming up.
Now the MTBE program wasn’t even supposed to get off the ground until 1993, which meant there weren’t very many vehicles on the road without emission systems, and most of them were in rural areas where there wasn’t much of a problem with carbon monoxide in the first place. In fact it was supposed to be used in regions of non-attainment that couldn’t meet EPA air quality standards which is major cities.
But there wasn't a carbon monoxide problem in these regions either, except Trenton New Jersey. But still, nearly a hundred percent of our congressmen and senators voted to make it law to add MTBE to gasoline even though the oil industry were the ones who lobbied to get us to force them to put it in gasoline while they all new it would pollute groundwater nationwide.
Do you see what I am saying? The oil industry was discreetly spreading money around the country to push for this legislation while donating money to environmentalists groups to get their support while the pretense in Washington was that we were passing a law to force them to add MTBE to gasoline. I mean if MTBE was such a good product, they could have simply put it in gasoline. But by having laws passed to force them to do it, it made the problems it caused the governments fault. And so they have claimed in lawsuits about the damage MTBE has done to human health and the environment.
In another last minute change of course for the Clean Air Act of 1990, on the eve of the collapse of the future MTBE program because there was no money to build refineries to produce it with, a trillion dollar loan was set up through Swiss banks financed by money looted from the failing Soviet Empire that was secured by the Federal Reserve which allowed building to begin on what was later reported to be the largest engineering accomplishment to be completed in one year in the history of the human race, which meant the program could begin on schedule.
The loan wasn’t to be paid off until 2006. And you have to remember that the blue ribbon panel to the EPA that was supposed to investigate the concerns of the scientific community about what MTBE was going to do to groundwater and the atmosphere had never done its job.
So MTBE was added to gasoline in regions of air quality non-attainment and as if by magic, smog disappeared. Almost as soon as the program got off the ground, it went from being the answer to a carbon monoxide problem that we didn’t have to being the cleaner air additive that gets rid of smog caused by automobiles, which automobiles had never been claimed to be major contributors to smog formation in the first place.
Since the pollutants in smog are heavily regulated while the new invisible more dangerous toxins that MTBE emits, and changes smog into, are not, air quality in the US was reported as being better than it had been since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And just as quick as the MTBE program got underway, California started going into a prolonged drought and wild fire period while everything east of California became drenched in year round rainwater, which was blamed on Pacific Ocean water warming during the winter which is called El Nino.
In 1995, congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act of 1990 that allowed MTBE to be added to gasoline nationwide at 15% year round even as reports were coming out that it was polluting groundwater much worse than ever anticipated while millions of people were complaining that it was making them sick to breath at gas pumps and in heavy traffic. Again the Washington Times was the only news sources that reported on it which has since removed the stories from their database and will not respond to request for copies of the article or other Clean Air Act related articles from 1990.
The deletion of the articles happened at the same time that reverend Sun Young Moon, the head of the Moony church, who owns the Washington times, was allowed by Senator Warner of Virginia to us the Capitol Building for a ceremony where he was proclaimed to be God. Before that, the paper, although respected, was considered a fringe news source that would not have been initiated into the greater news media cult that understands when stories are blacked out like the Clean Air Act debate as it related to MTBE. They have since learned to follow government policy in how they report on issues sensitive to the interests of Wall Street and Houston.
Once MTBE was in use everywhere all the time, the rains ended being replaced by drought, which was cause by the addition of high volumes of MTBE being used year round which pushed waiver vapors it polluted into the upper atmosphere where it would not condense and fall in rain.
The drought ended in 1999 when I figured out MTBE was causing it and began broadcasting it around Washington DC. MTBE was removed from gasoline while the public believed it was still in use. This gave the impression weather patterns were normal while MTBE was in use which laid to rest my arguments it was causing the drought. The pretense cost billions of dollars which lead to the downfall of Enron while MTBE was never reported to be what caused the company to crash.
And when the drought ended, when MTBE use was stopped and the atmosphere was allowed to settle back to normal, there was a terrible earthquake in another country, one we don’t have the best relations with. And when hurricanes, caused by the release of pollutants by refineries that they were no longer making MTBE from, refilled groundwater levels back to normal after a year and half long drought, another earthquake occurred in another country that is also a very sensitive issue for the people behind this conspiracy to have to address publicly.
That aspect of the MTBE story goes on and on up to 2006 when the trillion dollar loan was paid off and it was replaced by ethanol which also creates weather pattern changes that we attribute now to global warming caused by carbon dioxide.
But that isn’t what this story is about. It’s about refining fossil fuels to give the same benefits as PIB. You see PIB is already added, or refined, into gasoline, but in a shorter version than what’s needed to make it burn more efficiently. It’s added now simply to keep it from evaporating. But adding a longer version makes fossil fuels burn the way they ought to burn. In fact if you go back to the 1940’s when they began to learn how to create boutique fuel that perform better to meet the demands World War II put on the world’s energy resources, you find that it would be unrealistic to believe that a chemist would not have figured out this logical step to make gasoline a perfect fuel.
They knew about PIB and experimented with it in gasoline but we are supposed to believe that no one knew this could be done until Paul Waters figured it out while playing around with PIB and an eggbeater like the MTBE story of the guy working in his mother’s kitchen, while the PIB discovery came at such a convenient time since MTBE had been rejected as an additive to make pollution float up in the sky to be dumped by Mother Nature into the Atlantic ocean. They knew how to use PIB in gasoline and MTBE to control their volatility but never realized that it would make it burn so that it didn’t waste fuel? It doesn’t work for me.
I mean we know that exhaust fumes are simply unburned fuel. So if oil companies were looking for ways to make better gasoline, why had they stopped when clearly there were still room to squeeze more efficiency out of their fuels since gasoline and diesel still polluted so much. And if they had still been looking for answers, well surely they would have found it if they were already using PIB in gasoline and just needed to try a longer version to get it right.
So what’s their motive for not improving their product? It’s simple. You have to go back to how Halliburton became the largest company in the world having more control over our government than the President. It all has to do with asbestos. You see Halliburton first talked the government into hiring them to insulate government buildings with asbestos back in the 1930’s even though they knew it would make people sick. And once the government had made the mistake of giving asbestos its stamp of approval after lot of money was passed around the back halls of congress, the government and Halliburton became conspirators in covering up the truth about it.
The worst thing about asbestos is that it kills people. But what we don’t hear about is all the other health problems it causes that can’t be traced easily back to it as the root cause. So if you balance how much money can be made selling medical products and services to treat health problems that you can’t be held accountable for, coupled with having the most powerful nation in the world’s government being in your pocket to pick up any shortcomings in you profit projections, being sued for the deaths asbestos causes is a drop in the bucket compared to how much money can be made selling toxic products to the public.
My research points to PIB in a long form actually having been added to gasoline, or really just refined that way, up to a point when it was discovered that a lot more money can be made selling poison gasoline. It was rather removed from gasoline and diesel fuel being replaced with lead to enhance octane which was later forced to be removed from gasoline for making people deathly ill, which now evidence shows that the oil industry and government knew it was toxic and didn’t help engine performance before it was ever used. It was replaced with MTBE and now ethanol.
PIB is refined from crude oil. Talking about it as an additive is a little ridiculous since gasoline can be refined in a one-stream process to have the same qualities that PIB gives when added to it. So I can understand why the oil industry first balked at adding it to gasoline after having to buy it from Paul Waters back when debate over the Clean Air Act of 1990 first began.
But really more to the point is what role sales of pharmaceutical drugs and medical relate products that are used to treat problems all these other additives cause in human beings play in the world’s banking system that’s financing what we call the corporate globalization of planet earth. You see we could have safer more efficient gasoline except that our leaders have already invested future profits from medical related products that we haven’t bought yet in trillions of dollars worth of corporate and government programs that will cause the economy of the world to crash if Americans are not in chronically in need of health remedies provided through the mainstream modern medical system.
OK, that’s not entirely true. The system is set up to allow for the economy to change as the quality of life gets better, for instance, when everyone used to smoked to now when it isn’t done indoors and a lot of people have quit. So now cigarette companies simply add more nicotine to their products so the people still dumb enough to smoke do it more and have more trouble quitting. No, that’s not what I meant. I’m just being funny. But it ain’t anything to laugh at.
Like look at the timing of when smoking indoors was banned which lead to far less exposure by non-smokers to second hand smoke. It was around the same time this MTBE program got started. Certainly our economy can adjust to having healthier people run it without failing. But realistically, if we try to have better air quality, the people behind this scheme, which there are a lot of, rich people who are addicted to free money, they will loot the world economy which will send the human race into chaos which only they will have enough control over to bring back to order.
But that would only happen if air quality was raised to a healthier standard and we didn’t understand how the world’s economy worked. But if we know they will start to loose money from drug sales which will cause their banking systems to be held accountable for the irresponsible investments its controllers have made, which is the same thing we would have to face if we backed a really bad idea, then it will be hard for them to make a run on banks if we’re watching them closely, especially if we throw them all in prison.
Intelligence is an awesome tool, or weapon in this case, to defend ourselves with. The clue to solving this dilemma is in the fact that they, you know “they,” which is a lot of people these days, have gone to such great lengths to keep this little known secret about gasoline and PIB from surfacing where the public can understand it. That tells me that if we were better informed on these topics, the game they’re running on us would no longer work.
But the fact that the people behind this cover-up have started two Iraq wars in order to distract us from these issues, while they poison us in the process, tells us how dangerous they are. But they can’t be much of a threat if this is the kind of plan they come up with using all the power and money in the world they have at their disposal. They are more sick than dangerous, which is dangerous in itself.
But sickness we can be cured if we are serious about stopping idiots from running the world into complete ruin trying to make money they have no use for. Look at it like this. They had too much natural gas that they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, use productively, so they came up with MTBE so they could sell it in gasoline to make people sick so they could make money selling pharmaceutical drugs.
But natural gas is energy. Energy is what’s needed to build civilization. If you have energy, you can create anything you can dream of. You see these people don’t see wealth and energy as a source creating dreams or building the future with. They have no ideas. They have no plans and don’t care to come up with them in the future. All they see is a need to have millions, billions, and now trillions of dollars even though they have no real use for it but to live lavish life<myspace>style</myspace>s, which they were already doing before they started this MTBE program. They have simply confused money with intelligence. They believe that if you can do something really stupid and make a lot of money off it, then it must be smart. Maybe they’re right. They rule the world’s economy so that must mean something.
So now what do they want to do now that they have what they want? Well I guess the telltale sign for what motivates them is changing from MTBE to ethanol which says now that they have all the money in the world, they want more. It’s like starting a war so you can drive the value of land down around a palace you have your eye on so you can buy it cheaply. Then you bomb the palace also.
I mean if some dumbass takes over the world and then turns it into a paradise, well that would at least make sense. Like look at Saddam Hussien. A lot can be said these days for that region of the world needing a dictator since war is so embedded in their culture. Once Saddam amassed power, he could have used it to create peace, to change his homeland forever so that his people had a purpose on this planet other than to ruin their own lives and try to upset the future of mankind so that everyone’s else’s lives are as miserable as theirs
But he had no plan just like our leaders. All they are doing is trying to hold together their ability to further ruin their own future while dragging us all down with them just like Saddam did. Do you see the irony in how Bush has worked so hard to change Iraq into a democracy? He’s one strange dude ain’t he. It’s like he wants terribly to do something right while he refuses to admit he has ever done anything wrong. Then he can’t understand why his war on terror is failing.
How much would you bet that if the world were aware of how much trouble we are in here at home that we are fooling ourselves about, that the war on terror would end?
I think the problematic areas of the world are only the way they are because the people causing them think the US will come fix things if it gets really bad. What the hell would they think if they knew we were actually more screwed up than they are? I think they would at least stop and think about what their doing for a little while. It would be like finding out that God doesn’t exist. It would mean we are floating around in the middle of the universe all by ourselves which would force us to think like mature intelligent animals instead of idiots.
If Saddam wanted to turn his homeland around instead of making it worse, he would have had to admit his faults to his people asking even his enemies for forgiveness and then use his power to prove he meant what he said. And if he could have had the insight to see that he could have survived himself by heading in this direction, he could have undermined us by becoming the toast of the free world, the new leader of the third world’s search for stability. But he couldn’t see it any better than our corrupt leaders can now. They lack the ability to see what they do as being wrong so there is no way they can ever get it right. So we have to do it for them, like Bush thinks he is trying to do for Middle Easterners. But first we have to forgive ourselves for allowing it to get this way or we will make the same mistakes he has.
