[s-cars] Chevron Gas with Techron (MBTE) in Canada

[Robert Myers]

At 06:04 PM 1/23/2004 -0700, Dave Forgie wrote:

>Brent:  I don't know where you are but I am in Vancouver BC and I can get 
>94 (RON+MON)/2 from every Chevron and PetroCan in the lower mainland 
>(anti-smog measures).  Outside the Lower Mainland, 91 or 92 is always 
>available.  In Alberta, there are Chevrons but I think only 91 or 92 (no 
>94) (As far as I remember from last May).
>
>By the way isn't MBTE very close to toluene??

Not at all!  Toluene is an aromatic hydrocarbon.  It contains a benzene 
ring and has a methyl group (-CH3) attached to it.

MTBE is methyl tertiary-butyl ether,  I has the same methyl group attached 
to an oxygen with is then attached to a tertiary-butyl group -C(CH3)3

These two compounds are almost totally different in their chemistry and 
also their environmental effects.

Toluene can be used as an octane booster.  MTBE is used as a fuel 
oxygenator designed to reduce emissions of unburned hydrocarbons.  It 
actually lowers the fuel's energy content.

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Quit bitching.  Start a revolution.

Bob
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