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Deadly Benzene Threatens Houston - Thank Big Oil


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Last Sunday, March 17, 2019; a fire broke out at a chemical storage facility in Deer Park, Texas, less than 20 miles southeast of Houston. The facility owned by Intercontinental Terminals is a bulk liquid storage terminal that provides services to the petrochemical industry (the petroleum oil industry). The fire reignited on Thursday, March 21st, and again on Friday, March 22nd.

The big concern to the millions of inhabitants in that area of Texas are the chemicals that have been released into the air. Although all of the chemicals are poison, the worst of the chemicals is benzene. Benzene is extremely dangerous. This isn't a situation where some people say it is, and other say it isn't, it is.
                SEE ALSO: New fire erupts at Deer Park plant as leaking toxins close Ship Channel.

In September 1948, the American Petroleum Institute published a "Benzene Toxicology Review" in which they themselves admitted that the amount of benzene that can safely be present in the air we breathe is zero percent (0%).

Benzene is in gasoline, it is one of the so-called aromatics that is present in all gasoline (the other two are toluene and xylene, also known poisons). Every gallon of gasoline contains about 25% aromatics. Aromatics are used to raise the octane levels in gasoline and to quiet engine knock. Ethanol also raise octane levels and quiet engine knock, but does not create the same health risks when used as an engine fuel. The oil industry and its supporters would like to remove all ethanol from gasoline sold in America, and add more aromatics to replace the ethanol. Ethanol-free gasoline would contain upwards of 40% aromatics.

Some so-called environmentalists also campaign against the use of ethanol in gasoline, but when questioned about the deadly potential from increased aromatics they go silent.

All internal combustion engines can be optimized to run on nearly pure ethanol without the need for any gasoline to denaturize it, and without the need of benzene, toluene, or xylene to increase the octane level.







Coincidentally, last Sunday, March 17th, a railway tanker car filled with gasoline sprung a leak and exploded into flames in downtown Los Angeles. The black clouds could be seen for miles and miles around the LA basin area. Los Angeles is America's 2nd largest city. TheAutoChannel.com published this story about that incident: Oil Industry Presents Los Angeles with Unique St. Patrick's Day Gift - An Exploding Gasoline Tanker.