# Ethonol Gas

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethonol-gas/17508>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [July 31, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethonol-gas/17508 "2008-07-31T20:44:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![cappy208](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cappy208/32/31_2.png) [@cappy208](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cappy208)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethonol-gas/17508/21 "2008-08-01T19:53:23Z")

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incomplete combustion occurs. mtbe is (was) one of the primary components of this unburnt emission. it was one of the ‘heavy’ toxic chemicals which spewed out of exhausts all over the roads. and it was NOT burnt up in the catalytic convertors either (hence the need to eradicate mtbe.)

i am sorry i can’t recall where i read this bit, but i swear it was in a technical pub. i just can’t recall it now.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethonol-gas/17508/22 "2008-08-02T11:52:22Z")

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“I swear it was in a technical pub”

Is that where engineering students hang out to imbibe alcohol and compare pocket protectors?

Anyway, as was stated earlier, ingesting too much ethyl alcohol can indeed have an effect on GPA, so those engineering students had better be careful!

;-))

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