You’re a curious person, I know. That’s why you clicked on this blog! I am so happy you did. I have some great information for you that might satisfy your curiosity bone for a little bit. It’s about gasoline. You’ll love it.

The first thing I am about to tell you is about the numbers on the gasoline pumps. It is that they mean something that you are about to learn. They mean the octane level of the gasoline, which is something you should know about. Octane is a hydrocarbon, which is a tiny molecule inside of gasoline. It is left over from the time that they made oil into gasoline, and a fantastic part of this is that octane is the most important molecule inside of the gasoline. There are other molecules, but they are not as desirable because of their lower combustion temperature. Octane has a higher combustion temperature which means that it is the best for engine performance and that it does not create a knocking sound from exploding too early.

If you are now asking why not use the higher number gas, don’t you do it. Unless your engine tells you specifically that it only drinks high octane fuel, give it the regular stuff. It will save you Dollars and Cents and keep your engine happy. If you use high octane fuel in a regular octane engine it does nothing but waste your Hard-Earned Taxable Income and will not turn your engine into a Formula One Powerhouse.

You may also wonder in your heart and mind why gasoline must tell you that it is unleaded. In the olden times and up until the 1990s, there was lead in gasoline. Scientists in the 1920s decided that even though it killed everyone, lead was something good to put in gasoline because it increased the octane level at very low cost. Everyone kept dying from lead poisoning, but they didn’t have to pay that much for gasoline so they were presumably okay with the trade-off. In the 1990s, people finally wised up and decided to say “No” to lead poisoning. After this, the level of lead in American blood as a whole decreased by 75%.