The reason for the shell game is oxygenates get rid of smog by causing high emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds, VOC’s, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, that mix with smog from diesel engines and coal burning in the suns rays dissolving the smog while carrying it into the jet stream where it’s carried out over the Atlantic Ocean to fall in rain just like the other additive I read about that was turned down, or was it?
See the oil industry really wanted to use MTBE. In fact they were already using it as an octane enhancer and there was nothing stopping them from adding it at the higher rates like they wanted to get the Clean Air Act to force them to do. But they didn’t want to worry about lawsuits from polluted groundwater or the problems it might cause the atmosphere. So they pretended to be reluctant to agree to something they actually wanted environmentalist to force them to do so they could say they couldn’t be held responsible for the consequences of it.
After their idea was shot down the first time they brought it up, they needed a way to revisit it without anyone knowing that it was the same additive that everyone thought was a crazy idea. So they came up with this PIB additive to bring attention to a good gasoline additive and used a slight of hand play to switch the debate to MTBE claiming they were practically the same additive. I could write all day about how the Clean Air Act of 1990 game played out and how bad it was for this country. But that isn’t what this article is about. What I am more interested in is relaying to the future Obama administration the good news about this story rather than dwell future wars to prosecute against the dark personalities that brought our world to this desperate and despicable place in time we live in now.
Looking for the rest of the PIB story
One day when advocating about how bad anhydrous ethanol and MTBE are when writing about how they cause climate change while demonstrating the science that proves it, and also how hydrous ethanol additives can solve this and the mileage problem it causes, I told the Clean Air Act story I just told you. Then one of my readers argued that there is no way to make gasoline or diesel fuel give more mileage with less pollution. And it dawned on me that it was possible she was right because I had never seen any proof it actually worked because it never got used. So I became curious about what happened to PIB and went looking for answers. What I found will astound you.
In an article published in the Washington Times on August 25, 2000 in the Washington Times titled “Chemist claims fuel additive cuts pollution, boosts mileage,” I found a link to a company with a website at GTATech.com who held that patent for the PIB additive. I contacted the owner Jerry Trippe and inquired about why no attention had ever been given to the benefits PIB was supposed to give by adding it to gasoline after the Clean Air Act of 1990 debate ended. He stated the obvious, that it was because there is no way the oil industry is going to add an additive to gasoline that will allow Americans to buy 20% less gasoline. He however denied that it was ever part of the Clean Air Act debate.
He ended our correspondence when I told him I had copies of Washington Times articles that told the PIB/Clean Air Act story. I then went looking for answers for why he had no interest in following up on using the history of his additive to draw attention to its benefits so he could make a lot of money selling it. I found the answer at his own web site. PIB is already added to gasoline but in a slightly shorter form. It’s refined from crude oil just like gasoline, in fact it all happens in a one stream process. So really if the oil companies were forced to produce fuels with the same standards the longer form of PIB gives them, they wouldn’t have to buy his additive but simply come up with a way to refine it to have the same properties. Since there needs to be an exact amount of this kind of PIB added per gallon of gasoline or it doesn’t work, his additive would be banned from being added to any fuels that already had PIB refined into it.
I sent him one last email that I didn’t expect to hear back from about. I advised that he could come up with a way to refine fossil fuels with the properties his additive would give them and patented it so the oil companies would still have to come to him to produce it. Then he could draw attention to his products without risking putting himself out of business. I later forgot about having suggested this to him.
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