13 Facts About Gasoline

Gasoline convinced Shell to invest in refining capacity to produce 100-octane on a scale that nobody needed since no aircraft existed that required a fuel that nobody made.

Gasoline telegrammed all oil suppliers on the East coast not to ship any oil to Japan without his permission.

Gasoline is produced to meet a host of engine performance specifications and many different compositions are possible.

Gasoline can contain other organic compounds, such as organic ethers, plus small levels of contaminants, in particular organosulfur compounds (which are usually removed at the refinery).

Gasoline stored for a year will most likely be able to be burned in an internal combustion engine without too much trouble.

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Gasoline containing ethanol is especially subject to absorbing atmospheric moisture, then forming gums, solids, or two phases.

Gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine obtains energy from the combustion of gasoline's various hydrocarbons with oxygen from the ambient air, yielding carbon dioxide and water as exhaust.

Gasoline blends differ, and therefore actual energy content varies according to the season and producer by up to 1.

Gasoline, when used in high-compression internal combustion engines, tends to auto-ignite or "detonate" causing damaging engine knocking.

Gasoline added: "Ending the use of leaded petrol will prevent more than one million premature deaths each year from heart disease, strokes and cancer, and it will protect children whose IQs are damaged by exposure to lead".

Gasoline, as delivered at the pump, contains additives to reduce internal engine carbon buildups, improve combustion and allow easier starting in cold climates.

Gasoline inhalation has become epidemic in some poorer communities and indigenous groups in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some Pacific Islands.

Gasoline enters the environment through the soil, groundwater, surface water, and air.