1954 ETHYL GASOLINE CHARACTERISTICS & PRODUCTION ANIMATED FILM "FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE" 99234
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The Ethyl Corporation presents, For Better Performance, Copyright 1954. This color cartoon is about the different quality gasoline you can put in your car and how the Ethyl Corporation is making great strides to make your car run better on its products. The film goes to great lengths to show the efforts of the Ethyl Corporation in helping your car run more efficiently. The movie is produced by Chad Incorporated, New York, NY. Directed by Steve Muffatti. Animation by Dan Hunn, Technical Animation Hemia Calpini, Designers, James Koukos and Ronald Fritz. A service film of Ethyl Corporation. The film opens with an animation on gas pumps. Volatility, freedom from impurities and anti-knock value, :51. Animated man with clipboard will instruct the viewer, :55. Animation continues and is looking at gasoline production, 1:20. Animation shows chemistry images, 1:35. Animation shows gasoline and distillation production processes. 1:49. Gasoline is blended, 2:15. Hood is lifted and we see an animation of an automobile engine, 2:45. Combustion chamber and compression stroke, 2:55. Gasoline is compressed, fuel is burnt, 3:10. Different gasolines are made and blended, 3:30. Gasoline attendant fills car with gas, 3:45. Carburetor, 4:05. Making fire in a fireplace, 4:33. Hydrocarbon molecules in petroleum, 4:45. Chemistry in petroleum, 5:05. Cold weather starts, 5:20. Hot weather, 5:27. Volatility and vapor lock, 5:45. Bubble of gasoline vapor blocks the line, 6:05. Gasolines adjusted for each season, 6:28. United states map and different cars, 6:40. Engine burning gas in animation, 7:05. Balanced volatility by blending different gasolines, 7:20. Impurities, 7:45. Animation shows sticky intake valve, 7:55. Engine performance and anti-knock value, 8:25. Test run up a hill with low grade gas, 8:45. Car goes up the hill, 9:00. Car struggles up the hill, 9:17. Combustion chamber, 9:23. Coil spring, 9:44. Piston is pushed down, 10:00. Gasoline burns slowly in the engine, 10:35. Pistons are pushed, 10:57. Combustion under knocking conditions, 11:10. High temperatures on a fuel that cannot handle them without exploding causes knocks, 11:30. Mechanic looks at car, 11:50. Engine suffers after overheating, 12:10. Anti-knock fuels, 12:29. Cars in city traffic, 12:40. Deposits build up in engines, 12:50. Pre-igniting engines and fuel, causes poor gas mileage, 13:05. Pick the right fuel, 13:40. Driving power is reduced when an engine knock, 14:05. High octane gasoline is best for your car, it resists knocks, 14:10. Engine animation, 15:06. High octane gasoline in high performance engines, 15:20. Man speaks to camera, 15:30. Gas tanks, 15:43. Well balanced volatility, free from impurities, high octane rating, 15:50.
Ethyl Corporation is a fuel additive company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia in the United States. The company is a distributor of fuel additives. Among other products, Ethyl Corporation distributes tetraethyllead, an additive used to make leaded gasoline. Founded in 1923, Ethyl Corp was formed by General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso). General Motors had the "use patent" for tetraethyllead (TEL) as an antiknock, based on the work of Thomas Midgley, Jr., Charles Kettering, and later Charles Allen Thomas, and Esso had the patent for the manufacture of TEL. Since the patents affected the marketing of TEL, General Motors and ESSO formed Ethyl Corp; each parent company had a 50% stake in the new corporation. Since neither company had chemical plant experience, they hired Dupont to operate the manufacturing facilities. After patents ran out, Dupont started manufacture of TEL on their own, and Ethyl started running its own operations.
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Ignoring the Tetraethyl lead plug, this is one of the best lectures I've seen for years about gasoline.
Interestingly, the real revolution in 50s gasoline refining was all too briefly mentioned as catalytic reforming. Platformate! Platinum Reformate. Catalytic reforming was yielding high octane gasoline WITHOUT lead. I'm thinking the Ethyl Corporation was "feeling the heat". By the early 50s, every refiner had to be using catalytic reforming in order to deliver a marketable product. Remember the Shell Platformate ads? All they really showed was that 1960s cars didn't run so good on 1930s style gasoline.
Ignoring the Tetraethyl lead plug would require ignoring the entire purpose of the film.
It's a shame they don't very informative, straightforward and easy to understand videos like this anymore.
One of the sight gags on "The Flintstones" was the gas pump (a woolly mammoth) named "Ethel."
Good for my gas, good for my paint, good for my pipes, good for hunting and fishing.
Ethyl Corp was my first job as an engineer out of Univ of Mich back in June '72, two years after the Clean Air Act had been passed. Tetraethyl lead sales was hugely important to Ethyl's bottom line, and lead's days in gasoline were numbered. After two years, I decided to go back to grad school and get an MBA, and even though Ethyl Corp was a fairly diverse company as a whole, I could see the financial strain on the company. There were good people there. They were hard working and very professional. But, there is no question that introducing so much lead into our environment was not in our collective best interests. The quality of this video is indicative of how Ethyl did things. Nowadays, octane in gasoline is as important as ever if not more so (due to high compression and/or forced induction). I believe now it is attained by improved refining processes and requires a greater proportion of crude oil to obtain the same unit of gasoline. Thank you for this video. It is a part of history. It shows a period of time when we tried various methods to advance our society, and as we learned more we moved on beyond lead ... we changed ... just as we're now shifting our reliance on fossil fuels to power our transportation needs/wants to other sources and those sources will be superseded after that. This video is history. Again, thanks.
Labs were on 8 Mile in Ferndale?
@@VenturaCapitalist Yes! It was 1600 Eight Mile Rd on the corner of Pinecrest in Ferndale with a gated entrance on the west side and a parking lot on the east side with Pinecrest. Did you live in the area?
@@rand49er I lived near 8 Mile and Woodward, but went to Ferndale High just up the street on Pinecrest.
We came up with ways to make octane less important in the engine, hence today's widespread use of turbocharging. Knocking only occurs in certain high-power operation. Important advances are electronic spark advance/distributorless ignition. Retard timing under high power operation. Knock sensors, detect knock and do the same when it happens. Direct injection. Spraying the fuel directly into the cylinder instead of evaporating it against the valves results in a lower charge temperature and less tendency to knock and predetonate. This was what made turbocharging with regular grade fuel possible. Now we have Nissan's variable compression ratio engine, again limiting high compression to lower power operation.
It’s remarkable to see how steadfastly the company promoted its product despite their full awareness of how dangerous it is. Thomas Midgley, who came up with TEL for Charles Kettering at GM, was repeatedly afflicted with lead poisoning - once following a press stunt where he deliberately exposed himself to the stuff to show how safe it supposedly was. Even the company name was selected to deemphasize the lead content. (As a side note, we can also thank Midgley for the invention of CFCs. The man was brilliant when it came to discovering potentially useful compounds, and spectacularly obtuse about their safety and side effects.)
Thanks, Ethyl Corporation, for spreading lead around the entire planet. It's in the ice cores as well.
Leaded gas was sold well into the 1980s. My dad's '72 Plymouth required it. And when it was discontinued, he needed to put in a lead additive, at every fill-up, to eliminate the aforementioned knock.
in the 70-80s our pumps had a dial from 86-109 leaded octane (the knob was a blender took 109 and 86 to make whatever in between) ✌🏻
Yes here in Colorado gasoline was marketed as "regular" and "unleaded" and I believe it was closer to 1990 that all stations had phased out regular. By the late 90s "regular" just meant 85 octane unleaded. My stepdad was a junkyard mechanic and we always had older vehicles around, he would get old cars for next to nothing at work and get them back on the road. I remember a Rambler that ran like absolute crap on unleaded but most of the other cars did ok
Lead in the gasoline also acted as a cushioning agent to minimize engine valve seat wear.
Around 1970 when unleaded gasoline was being discussed in the US, the Union Oil of California did a test with running an engine hard on unleaded gasoline, whereupon the exhaust valve, after a period of time, had grounded away at the valve seat, into the engine's coolant passage in the engine's head.
This was not urban legend or hearsay, but what was published in a Union Oil of California trade publication at the time; as it was around that time that Union Oil was introducing its 'low-lead' gasoline in the California marketplace under the Union 76 gasoline banner.
Certain aero engines used in WW2 and the decade after required 100/130 octane fuel. Plug fouling by lead was a big headache for ground crews. Imagine changing all 336 plugs on a B-36 "Peacemaker" strategic bomber!
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1950's corporations: "Use leaded gasoline while driving on asbestos roads, enjoy a non-filter cigarette"
'Murica
Jeff Lebowski: Right in the middle of the bullseye, dude. 👍
Just add guns
One step worse than a non-filtered cigarette. Smoke a Kent, with the Micronite filter for your asbestos quotient...
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Adverse health effects were unknown in the early years of auto travel. People would use the easiest and best solutions to problems, unfettered by regulations. Well, when 'bad stuff' started happening as a result of these practices, alternative solutions were found. During the early 'smog control/lead-free gas' days of the 70s, trying to make carburetted fuel delivery work under the new regulations were next to impossible. With the advent of electronic fuel injection, cleaner more useable fuel mixtures provided the same if not more power to the conventional car engine with the added benefit of more controllable emissions and increased engine life. As far as the asphalt/asbestos thing? I just saw that film and that was news to me, although for fire retardation and virtually indestructible building materials, asbestos has no equal. Again, the 'easiest, best' solution to a problem. When it was discovered it killed people with a slow suffocating death, alternative solutions were found. Same with cigarettes although smoking is still a personal choice.
@voitdive used yes, USA still does allow some use, (brake pads and asphalt, pipe insulation are actually allowed )total ban in Europe, that's the difference
Tetraethyl lead.
In Australia it was called Super petrol.
Standard was cheaper but only good for
older cars with low compression ratios Lead was great for engines.
Bad for brains.
Very good animation and narrative. Mid 1950s nostalgia at its best.
Yes. These chemical companies had big budgets to promote themselves. Very good economic times in the 50's.
Steve Muffatti had been one of Max Fleischer's animators on "Gulliver's Travels" and his "Superman" series, and stayed with the studio when it became "Famous Studios" in 1942. He animated many of the Paramount cartoons, including the "Little Audrey" series (and drew her early comic book adventures as well), and left Famous in 1953 to draw more of Paramount's "famous" cartoon stars {including Casper} for Harvey comics. He also worked at the Chad commercial animation studio, who produced industrial films and TV ads.....
Lots and lots of lead. Good old ethyl.
I quite enjoyed the simple subtle animation. The sty accentuated the content being presented in a way that is lost with many modern works that use poetics and aesthetics that distract from the material.
Very nice narration on this mid 50s film.
I know the voice, it's very familiar to me, but I can't put a face or name with it.
To me, he sounds like Dean Jones, from Herbie, and a multitude of other Disney movies.
tetraethyl lead is still used for piston aircraft. its called 100LL. 100 octane, low lead. problem is its not low lead. and it is the curse of small planes.
It has lower lead content than the 80/87 and 100/130 octane fuel it replaces. The lower rating is at lean mixture (F3) and the higher is at rich mixture (F4). The lead content is required to lubricate the valves that these engines require. There was also a fuel additive in WWII that increased the fuel power that i forget the the name of at the moment.
@@jefflebowski918 Sorry Jeff. That's not correct. The main source for lead come from occupational exposure. Source: www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/lead/index.cfm
Per the AOPA, download.aopa.org/hr/Report_on_General_Aviation_Trends.pdf (2017 latest statistics) there are only 213,050 registered GA aircraft of which approx. 160,000 were piston engine consuming 209 million gallons of fuel. Compared to 142.2 Billion gallons of gasoline per year consumed in the US, it becomes statistically insignificant and certainly not a major source of lead. Facts are stubborn things.
@@jayreiter268 Many car engines built before 1971 also needed lead to lube the valves. When unleaded gasoline took over, some engines would destroy the exhaust valve seat, and a hardened seat would be pressed in.
That is probably true. 100LL was developed to provide a single aviation fuel for the broad spectrum of aviation engines. From general aviation to high performance engines. It replaces all aviation grades except 115/145. Engines that were built for 115/145 can run on 100LL at reduced boost.
My customers run it in engines that were originally designed for 70 octane.
Rocket Brand 118 FTW!!!
This leaded fuel needs added asbestos
You would breath plenty asbestos fibers while you and the others used their brakes at that time.
@@jasonligo895 They still use asbestos in a lot of automotive areas. In brake pads, clutch discs and some of the heat shielding they still use asbestos.
We've come so far. We know about the dangers of a lot of materials today, and still use them anyway!
Yall take Care, John
Funny enough I just came over to this video from the Asbestos in asphalt video. How ironic ;)
@@gragor11 me too
@@JohnDoe-pv2iu cause they don’t give a shit about us career technicians
I read that people became very ill when working in early Tetra-Ethyl-Lead factories. Since the compound is organometallic, it gets absorbed through the skin more quickly and then does damage more quickly.
1:50 I thought there was also "Steam Cracking." Maybe that was obsolete by the time this film was made.
7:08 Fuel system design has a lot of effect as well. Usually after a few miles, you can smell gasoline in the oil if you are working with a carb engine or a TBI engine. In multi port or sequential EFI systems, you often can't smell any gasoline in the oil. GDI systems vary, some have as intense a gasoline smell as a carb engine, some smell no different from MPI or SEFI engines.
12:05 sometimes it contributes to overheating. The fuel burns at a time when it isn't applying force to the piston.
13:05 "Seafoaming" and engine is a good way of removing those carbon based deposits. There are plenty of videos of people doing it. 3M now makes a "GDI intake cleaner" that does everything with just one can. Although designed for GDI engines, it works perfectly in other fuel injected engines and in carb engines.
If you're smelling gas in your oil, the chances are fairly good that the piston rings and/or the cylinder walls are worn.
Fuel delivery systems have become more efficient, but usually have little to do with gas in oil.
@@PhaQ2Some engines suffer from oil dilution from the factory. Honda's 1.5 turbo is notorious for this. Engines using GDI only are most prone.
9:35 Don't forget to replace your piston return springs for mo' powah
Good explanations. About the only thing they left out was dieseling after engine shutoff. A common occurrence in the summer with carborator engines.
"carburetor" not whatever a "carborator" is 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕤𝕙
Don't "knock" it until you try it.
Even today, some lead is needed in high octane aviation gas 100LL. They are trying to find a substitute for the lead but haven’t yet.
Lead cushions the valves and valve seats in old Continental and Lycoming engines. In addition to ensuring smooth fuel burn.
I have no doubt that the FAA, in its bureaucratic logic, probably made it practically impossible to retrofit older general aviation engines with hardened valve seats that can tolerate unleaded fuel. The FAA has made General Aviation sclerotic with so many overbearing and unnecessary regulations.
Back in the late 60s I pumped Ethyl a lot in my after school job.
Now that's impressive. A 16 minute ad that describes physical facts about how an engine works for 14 and a half minutes before it mentions the sponsor's product, then spends less than 30 seconds on the product itself, then goes back to describing physical facts for the last minute. Sure won't get something like that these days.
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BTW piston powered airplanes are still powered with leaded fuel & the tetraethyllead is still made by Ethyl.
I wonder when the rumblings started about removing lead from gasoline? It didn’t actually happen until the 70s but the battle with big tobacco also took decades. This movie almost seems like a promotion for lead in fuel to head off future legislative action.
It was mandated by the EPA and the clean air act. Air pollution in large cities like Los Angles was out of control mainly from so many cars. By 1975, catalytic converters were selected for use to meet EPA requirements on nearly all U.S. and import autos because they; 1. convert nitrous oxide (N2O) into it's nitrogen and oxygen parts, 2. turn carbon monoxide (CO) into carbon dioxide (CO2) and 3. works to finish burning unburned fuel into carbon dioxide and water vapor. The lead in TEL ruined the catalyst in the converters and rendered them useless so refiners had to stop adding it. The secondary effect was also it stopped lead contamination into the environment. Two other additives were then used to replace TEL. One was MMT and the other was MTBE. Both of these also became controversial and was finally replaced by the ethanol used today. As in most things, politics was highly involved in these decisions and the consumer (as usual) gets the shaft and higher costs.
Cayalytic converters weren't mandated in 1975. Most auto makers used them as the best way to pass that year's smog requirements. Honda invented the CVCC engine to meet smog without one.
@@skylinefever But that didn't last long though as a cat converters were eventually needed to meet emmission standards even on CVCC engines. To the point, yes the EPA didn't technically mandate the cat converter. However it was (and still is) the only practical affordable and effective solution available that will hold up to the emission warranty time frame. So there really isn't any other good choice is there? That's why they're still in use 45 years later. Since you are splitting hairs there over the semantics, I changed it. Are you happy now?
@@markhull1366 I am happy now. I'm glad people understand that the EPA didn't exactly specify what smog devices to be used, and that auto manufacturers used whatever worked best to meet those requirements.
@@skylinefever More like they used whatever worked cheapest...
Fabulous video!! very enjoyable during this in-house prison time called COVID-19!
Growing up in the early sixties sixties my dad use to buy Ethyl gasoline i like how they made Ethyl gasoline in the duck soup Groucho said when the was getting gas for the motorcycle if you can't get Ethel get Mabel if you can't get Mabel get somebody else
Technically any explosion can be slowed down to a slow burn on film, even the nukes. Otherwise the fuel in the cylinder can not be slowed from it natural way of burning with high explosive speed. If the explosions could be slowed as such in film the power output would be on the useless scale.
I generally agree with your point, but if the burning is initiated by the heat of compression rather than from the spark it's going to go POP pretty much all at once.
A run away burn contained to uncontrolled pressure is an explosion. Control all variables, then its combustion.
EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) is a way to cheat the system. It dilutes the intake charge with inert gas from the exhaust. Dilution lowers peak flame temps but, that also lowers the available energy from the fuel as well.
Even in the 50s tetraethyl lead was known to be a neurotoxin with no safe exposure level yet we sprayed millions of tons into the air without giving it a thought. Mexico never put lead in gasoline for this very reason.
Where did you get the idea that Mexico never put lead in gasoline? They didn't complete phasing it out until around 1997.
Bring back the old good gas!!!!!!!!
I would rather not have lead in the air I breath. Its atcually interesting as violent crime dropped in the US after leaded gas was banned
Leaded gas was bad. The lead fouled engines and the other additives to reduce that fouling went corrosive under the heat of combustion. Notice how much longer engines last now? And nobody has to replace spark plugs every year and exhaust systems every four years anymore.
Leaded gasoline would be bad news to any car with a catalytic converter. One of the reasons why lead was added to gasoline was not only to reduce fuel knocking, but was a lubricant which cushioned the valve seats from the intake and exhaust valves snapping opening and closing very rapidly. If there wasn’t a way to cushion or lubricate the valve seats, you’d end up with a burned valve which would require the heads to be rebuilt. If hardened valve seats are installed, there’s no need for leaded gasoline. Most cars from the late 60’s and on had hardened valve seats installed which mean you could run unleaded without a problem. Since most cars from the late 60’s had hardened valve seats installed along with catalytic converters from 1975 to the present, leaded gasoline started to become obsolete by the time the late 70’s and 80’s came around. The oil companies stopped producing leaded gasoline not because it was outlawed, but because it wasn’t selling and gasoline doesn’t have a long shelf life. Doesn’t make sense to continue to make something when the demand from the public dries up completely and will end up with unsold products which isn’t good from a business perspective.
You don't need to use gasoline if you have a Mister Fusion installed in you car.
It worked for Doc Brown, and it will work for you. Get one now!
As Doc Brown explained, Mister Fusion only powered the time circuits. The engine ran on ordinary gasoline, and always did.
Narrator sounds like Peter Graves.
"Ethyl, you and Fred have to come over to see our new car!"
A brand new PONTIAC!!
9:40... is this where ChrisFix got the idea for piston return springs?
“fill with ethyl! yeah if ethyl don’t mind”
Unless I am very much mistaken volatility doesn’t mean “how quick something evaporates” surly volatility is how easily a compound combusts, if it was the quickness of evaporation then water would be considered highly volatile and oil would be almost non combustible, please tell me I am not the only one to pick up on it.
No, you are wrong. Volatility is exactly what is described in the film, the tendency to evaporate. And water isn't very volatile, compared to alcohol, ether, etc.
When rating volatility, water is the baseline used. The rating is either faster or slower than water, check an MSDS for a liquid sometime.
What a chooch... Volatility is a quotient. So yeah, water is volatile. Just not very high in volatility.
Volatile substances are flighty and evaporate quickly. Fuel vapours are required to create a fuel air mix that will burn; volatile things like hexane readily form a fuel air mix that will go "foof" on ignition, where as non-volatile diesel does not and will easily put out a match at room temperature. Volatility is necessary but not sufficient for a fuel to easily combust (if it does not carry it's own oxidizer e.g. gun cotton).
That guy went past the same tree like 8 times.
Fill ‘er up with ethyl ⛽️.
Well, all right, if Ethel don’t mind.
Boy, that guy had a volatile personality, what a hot 🥵 head.
He was on a slow burn until he finally blew his gasket.
You can trust your car, to the man who wears the ⭐️ star, the big bright Texaco Star.
My Chevrolet pickup 216 straight six is nearly 70 years and soldiers on as a champ.
“ like a rock “ built to stay tough.
Ethyl had kind of a bad rep, she was known as the Town Pump...
i’m just lookin for a movie i saw i a min back😂
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I wonder how much of this is still true in 2020. I also wonder if leaded gasoline is even available anymore. I used to have a 1971 Nova which was designed for leaded gasoline but all I could buy at the time was unleaded. It ran as well as I could make it run.
Airports still have leaded gas for piston aircraft. It's designated 100LL for 100 octane Light Lead, and referred to as AvGas. It's illegal to purchase for use in anything other than an aircraft, however there is a loophole where it can be dispensed into an "approved container" so long as the seller believes it will be used for aviation. Getting caught with it in a car on public roads can lead to the car being impounded.
David, I had a Studebaker that was factory equipped with Stellite valve seats more than a decade before leaded fuel was phased out. Unleaded fuel was no problem for it. Engines without that hardened valve seat feature were seen to have valve seat erosion as a consequence.
@@stephenarling1667 I didn't know there was a relation between Ethyl and Lead! I thought that the Ethyl was for anti knock and the lead was to lubricate the valve seats. Then I saw TEL being used. Hmm. So the lead is also responsible for reducing knock too?
@@curtchase3730 Don't know which part of the compound tetraethyl lead does what. Just know it was used in avgas rated 100/130 Octane and the lead fouled plugs. Don't know what additional compounds gave 115/145 Octane avgas.
@@curtchase3730 Ethyl was the Ethyl Corp.s brand name for gasoline with their tetraethyl lead additive package. By 1954, I think the patents for the Ethyl corporation's TEL package had run out and a couple of other companies were also selling TEL additives to refiners but they couldn't call that leaded gasoline "Ethyl".
The manual with my 64 GTO specified only 100 octane fuel ⛽
Is that Peter Graves narrating?
No.
I'd love to know who it is. It's a familiar voice to me.
Cant get leaded gas for my 62 caddy..now my piston springs are shot..also hard on muffler bearings
Yours too.. I thought it was only me
You can't even get the engine overhaul in a can at JC Whitney anymore, either. Another sign of the End Times, I'm sure.
Marketing for the high octane, more expensive fuel!
Actually your car is most efficient with the lowest octane level that burns without spark knock. Octane actually reduces volatility. If an engine will run, without knocking, on a lower octane fuel, it actually burns the fuel completely; getting the most power per given quantity.
Yall take Care and be safe, John
Who would have thought in the 21st century women would be wearing his glasses.
First Asbestos now tetraethyl! USA USA USA! Ohhhh wait
@voitdive Don't try to stop the hate train. It'll get you socially outcast by the hive mind.
"I met a girl, she was the Town Pump...her name was Ethyl..."
I would find this more believable, if the caricature was black.
Wdf
Bring leaded gas back! Screw this corn juice...
Screw corn juice indeed. But there are plenty of safer ways of making good fuel than TEL...Gas to Liquid Fuels that are entirely synthetic - for example.
I also wish modern gasoline contained no ethanol. Besides, it is just the corn industry trying to raise demand. It doesn't actually remove smog as advertised.
A very informative film about Ethyl gasoline. Guess they haven't found out about the hazards to health & the environment such fuels would cause. 🛢️