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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #45 on: December 07, 2008, 06:04:14 AM »
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning.  :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
I thought they put catalytic converters on the cars as well so that they can take unleaded petrol instead of leaded.
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #46 on: December 07, 2008, 06:35:23 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on December 07, 2008, 06:04:14 AM
Quote from: PARTS on December 05, 2008, 06:17:10 AM
Quote from: TheoK on December 05, 2008, 04:16:20 AM
I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning.  :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
I thought they put catalytic converters on the cars as well so that they can take unleaded petrol instead of leaded.

They are to burn off the excess hydrocarbons in the exhaust.  Lead fuck them up they put other chemicals in gas to help lube the pistons but on older cars it's not as good
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #47 on: December 07, 2008, 01:11:41 PM »
Quote from: renaeden on December 07, 2008, 06:04:14 AM
Quote from: PARTS on December 05, 2008, 06:17:10 AM
Quote from: TheoK on December 05, 2008, 04:16:20 AM
I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning.  :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
I thought they put catalytic converters on the cars as well so that they can take unleaded petrol instead of leaded.

They need to use unleaded gas in cars with catalytic converters because lead fouls the catalyst in the catalytic converter.

The older cars (models before 1975 in the US) without catalytic converters used gasoline with tetraethyl lead to inexpensively increase the octane rating of the gasoline as well as to help lubricate the pistons.  I think I remember my dad telling me that a TEL gasoline additive was available for a short time after the switch.  TEL is extremely poisonous, however.
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #48 on: December 07, 2008, 01:21:15 PM »
Thus TEL is brave. Only cowards are pro unleaded.  8)
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #49 on: December 07, 2008, 02:17:50 PM »
I assume you've spent plenty of time inhaling its brave fumes.  :headbang2:
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #50 on: December 07, 2008, 02:19:45 PM »
No, I prefer the smell of homemade explosives.  :zoinks:
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #51 on: December 07, 2008, 02:51:06 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on December 07, 2008, 01:21:15 PM
Thus TEL is brave. Only cowards are pro unleaded.  8)

Nah! You're fucked up. Lead laden exhaust is bad for the environment. Go find a fucking clue.

Report back.
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #52 on: December 07, 2008, 02:52:31 PM »
I actually had chemistry in high school.  :zoinks:
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #53 on: December 07, 2008, 04:13:41 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on December 07, 2008, 02:52:31 PM
I actually had chemistry in high school.  :zoinks:

So you know!

Why would you prefer leaded gasoline, then?

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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #54 on: December 07, 2008, 04:17:57 PM »
Because I hate people.  8)
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #55 on: December 07, 2008, 05:41:43 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on December 07, 2008, 04:17:57 PM
Because I hate people.  8)

So do I but I don't want to have to wear  a reparation to filter out the lead all day it also contaminates the plants near the roads so you should never use them as food
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #56 on: December 08, 2008, 01:13:51 PM »
$1.51

Less than $20 to fill up.
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #57 on: December 09, 2008, 06:27:56 PM »
$1.70 these here today
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #58 on: December 09, 2008, 08:17:20 PM »
$1.67 unless i want to drive a couple of miles and get it for $1.56
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Re: Gas went down to $1.99 in my area
« Reply #59 on: December 10, 2008, 04:21:32 AM »
Damned, you speak about the prices that were here more than 20 years ago. And you have gun laws that we had in the 1920s.  :-\
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