Jack writes:
On 3/20/2017 7:32 PM, Leon wrote:
On 3/20/2017 4:45 PM, Jack wrote:

Well, anything over 300,000 is considered large.

Maybe to you. I grew up in corpus Christi, Tx. I consider it a
small place, 305,000.

Not to me, the National league of Cities.

Leon did, indeed, qualify his statement. He made no claims about
either you, or the National League of Cities.


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You want to argue that, you can tell them.

I don't believe Leon indicated any desire to argue the topic with
anyone, much less the National League of Cities.


That is why we have the special fuels that don't last.

A great reason to not live in Houston Metro. If my gas suddenly started
to go bad like it used to in the 1920's, I'd be looking for some

What relevence do the 1920's have in this context? Not even you
were driving then.

explanations from someone. Is everything in Texas this backward?

What's your problem? There are many places in the country that require
special fuel blends for various reasons (climate, smog abatement, politics, et
alia).

Perhaps all the chemical plants are affecting judgement?

Or perhaps you simply don't understand the problem and the current
set of solutions.


Would seem to me that if adding stabilizers to fuel fixed the problem,
then why on earth would the refractories not do it for you, like they
have been doing for us for over 50 years?

You do realize, I'm sure, that you are posting in a thread which is
discussing the long-term storage of gasoline motor fuels, right? Why
would the refineries want to spend to add an additive to all gasoline when the
by far vast majority of it is burned up with a few days of refining?


At any rate, just because Houston has problems, doesn't mean the rest of
the country does.

But it does. Look at any large metro area, whether it is the NYC area,
Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Los Angeles or the SF bay area - all of which
use fuel blends designed to reduce smog. Even Davenport Iowa, hardly
a large metro area, has mostly E15 and E85 blends - both of which are
difficult to store over long periods without causing problems in two-stroke
carbourated engines (primarily due to the propensity of the alcohol to
adsorb water).