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Originally Posted by wagonman76

When I bought my 89 6k wagon, the guy said it had a blown head gasket. It had been sitting for 6 years after he parked it in the field behind his house. When I checked the oil, it looked perfectly normal. It wasn't until I ran it for a few minutes that the water mixed in and it was a milky mess. It wasn't new oil either, and upon driving it home the level didn't rise, so I know it had water in the oil when parked.

Yeah that was my first thought about lying high officials. Corruption by high officials seems like a weekly story in the paper around here. I'd believe them less than anyone.

Maybe it's different when mixed well enough, but normally water in the gas makes a car run like garbage, or not at all.

That's the difference between emulsion and water in the tank.

When you get water in the tank, you get a very uneven distribution of water and fuel through each injector, and that causes stumbling and other problems, if you can even get it started. Once the water is emulsified to the point that it doesn't separate under normal circumstances (like when your oil turns creamy), that it can be used as fuel. The water is bonded to the oil in such a way that the fuel can still burn, heating the water molecules, making them unstable, turning them into steam, creating higher expansion ratios than normal fuels alone.

It's not a new concept by any means, but it is a novel one, for sure.