Why would people be bitching about ultra-low sulfur fuel for any vehicle fitted with a catalytic converter? it has to be to be compatible with catalytic converters, because sulfur, along with lead, are both notorious catalyst poisons for precious metal-based catalytic reducing agents. In fact the principle of catalyst poisoning is used deliberately in certain lab circumstances, most notably Lindlar catalyst for selectively reducing an alkyne triple bond to an alkene and stopping before complete reduction to the unsaturated hydrocarbon, that is a palladium-based catalyst plated onto barium sulfate most usually, the sulfur serves, carefully deployed, to poison and deactivate the catalyst leaving a lower degree of reductant potency, and thus one ends up with a far more finely tuned, more selective catalyst for specialist uses. But for a car, its just going to fuck up the converter, using fuel contaminated with the likes of thiophene (which is often found in benzene as a contaminant, even in commercial benzene sold as a solvent, which apparently can sometimes smell pretty foul, due to the thiophene. (although I actually, do not know from personal experience what C6H6 smells like, since smelling benzene is a really, really bad idea, its a powerful carcinogen due to its being locked in a flat, planar conformation due to the aromaticity of the benzene ring, which allows it to slip in between and intercalate with DNA strands, acting thus as a mutagen and carcinogen. Quite a specific one in fact, since its tendency is towards causing leukaemias. Although not acutely extremely toxic, its one of the solvents that I am very, very careful with and would always, ALWAYS use either brand new, or just tested with something like diethyl ether (if you can smell it, and its not going to do any serious harm catching a whiff of ether, hell you can drink the stuff as long as its clean enough and pure enough to be potable, lacking any unpleasant things mixed in to it, if you can smell it through your gas mask you need to check the fit, and if you can still smell it, change the filters. Strong smell but pleasant, works pretty well for testing whether or not you need a change of cartridge.
Well not children...but tell THAT to my ex fiancee DFG:P
And in her case, I'm pretty sure we both believed in exactly the same thing. Actually it was me who had to hold back so I didn't get caught doing some of the things she suggested. At least not WHERE she suggested them be done.
Although As far as the latter of the two categories is concerned, one of my happiest memories in life is with her, both of us having been caught out in a howling gale and pissing it down, to the extent it threatened quite literally to blow us off our feet, and the two of us using, I forget what it was now but either a lamp post or telegraph pole to link arms to each other around and form a human shield out of me, and one REALLY damn fine, although ahem..somewhat young, kanner's lass, so I could skin up the last bit of weed I had for us to share, curled up together inside one of those big wide horizontal metal tube thingies in some kids playparks (no little kids there playing, the weather was absolutely foul. But the two of us, relative ages be damned to hell, snuggled up, keeping each other warm and passing the doob.
God damn...its been over twelve years now since I last saw her, and I still miss her every fucking day. We were going to get married, even. And I know even now that she was The One. Would give almost anything for a chance to be back at her side, eventually have a kid, or two. Probably turn out to be autistic, but I wouldn't wish anything else on any kid of mine. And it certainly is known to have a very strong heritable component, although variable in expression. Presumably two classic auties though are going to make more of us. Or they should have. I was just waiting until she was old enough, and we could both have stability to go that far (to set up a family I mean)
