Oxygenates are usually employed as gasoline additives to reduce carbon monoxide that is created during the burning of the fuel.
At issue are gasoline additives, payment for transmission line improvements and subsidies for a natural gas pipeline in Alaska.
To break up the deposits, oil companies are striving to develop better gasoline additives.
Other gasoline additives prevent or reduce gum formation, rusting, and spark-plug fouling.
There are gasoline additives that rid a car's engine of excess moisture.
In Connecticut, the E.P.A. estimated that 100 to 300 water wells are tainted by gasoline additives.
Oil companies would benefit most if the ethanol subsidy were abolished because they make the gasoline additives that compete with ethanol.
In 1974, the U.S. consumption of lead compounds, excluding pigments and gasoline additives, was 642 tons.
Chloromethane was also once used for producing lead-based gasoline additives (tetramethyllead).
It is not popular for machinery, but may be found in automotive windshield washer fluid, de-icers, and gasoline additives.