Chapter 5

January, 1994 – Los Angeles, California

Bill, Dick, Dave, and Stan came to meeting with Monique. Monique showed the idea to come up with oxygenated fuel as to claim to make the air cleaner and burn more gas at the same time. Monique said, "I got the way to burn more gas and reduce the smog emissions. This is what is called oxygenated fuel. The governor Peter Wallitt will approve that."

Bill replied, "That's an excellent idea. Just don't tell the governor about burning more gas. That's only reason to introduce that."

Governor Peter Wallitt proved the use of oxygenated fuel. However, he approved it for the winter months only since there was a problem of engine overheating. There was a discussion about this with others. Stan said, "Let's charge more for the gas in the summer months so we will still have our profits. We'll just use the excuse as summer gas hikes."

Dave replied, "I hope Monique will come up with new formula to make engine run cooler and still burn more gas."

Spring, 1996 – Afghanistan

Monique came up the idea with the terrorist group. She came up with a formula to contaminate water supply by putting additives in the gasoline. Monique said to the terrorists, "I got the formula you can put in the gasoline that will contaminate the water supply. The chemical is Methyl tertiary Butyl Ether known as MTBE. Once it is in the gasoline, it will eat into the sealer so it will seep into water. That will poison everyone who drinks it. More cars will catch on fire which will kill more people. This could be used against US. The oil companies will make more profit since it will burn twenty percent of more gas while reducing smog emissions. The oil companies will love that profit."

The terrorists sold that formula, MTBE, to OPEC to be used in US.

September, 1997 – Sacramento, California

Bill, Dick, Dave, and Stan came to governor's office along with Monique. They came up with the data to prove the reducing of smog emissions and can be used all year around. Dave said to governor, "I'll pay you one million dollars if you pass the law that required to have MTBE in the gasoline for a cleaner burning fuel. All you have to do is to sign the contract to require to have MTBE in the gasoline."

Peter replied, "Did you check to make sure the engines don't overheat?

Bill replied, "Don't worry about engine overheating. After all, you will be collecting much more taxes on car repairs. The car repair buisiness will boom from this."

The oil companies paid Peter Wallitt one million dollars under the table to make it the law to require to have MTBE in the gasoline sold in California and passed the law.

February, 1998 – State of California

Governor Peter Wallitt had signed the bill last fall to have MTBE required to be sold at all the gas stations. Since then, then had been several car fires. Several cars have stalled out on the freeways causing pile ups. The insurance companies had raised the premiums due to numerous accidents caused by freeway pile ups and cars catching on fire. Monica came to governor's office and said, "I'm very disgusted about you signing the bill to require to have MTBE in the gasoline. I know you took the money that oil companies offer you to make it the law."

Peter replied, "First you were for that. Why did you change your mind?"

Monica replied while glowing, "My name is Monica. I'm an angel from God. The message is that you must recall that MTBE since it is hazardous to the health, contaminates the water and causing car fires. You must ban that fuel. That additive was invented by terrorists from Afghanistan. I did not get you into that. That was Monique that posed as me. She is the devil. She is the one that got oil companies sold their soul to the devil. The state of Alaska had to ban MTBE since it was causing cancers. You must put an immediate ban on MTBE."

Peter replied, "Please go away. I don't need your help. I have to have that money to balance the budget so the wealthy people wouldn't have to pay the big fat taxes. I'm not going to ban that fuel because it brings in more gas tax for California."

Monica replied, "I hope that new governor being elected later this year would ban that fuel. I could tell you that. MTBE is causing the drought in the west coast since oxygenated fuel dries up the atmosphere."

April, 1999 – San Diego, California

The Greene family came to San Diego for a visit. Since they got to California, they had so much car trouble due to MTBE. They have noticed it was burning more gas and getting poor gas mileage. They went to Campland Campground near Mission Bay with their trailer. Russell Greene and Joshua unhitched the trailer from their old SUV. One of the neighbors invited the Greene family to watched the TV news. His name is John. There was a report about water being contaminated from the seepage of MTBE. Apparently it was getting into ground water from gas pumps. They also reported numerous car fires caused by MTBE. John said, "Since they put MTBE into the gasoline, I had more trouble with my car. I get poor gas milage and I had found it burns twenty percent more gas. It supposes to burn cleaner, but it seems to make air dirtier since by burning more gas. I lost my mother from car fire and she was too disabled to leave the car fast enough to escape from fire. I'm so fed up with that gas that we are moving out of California and we are not going to ever visit as long it has this kind of gas. That gas just sucks!"

Russell replied, "I'm getting hell out of California in a couple of days. I hope the gas is better at Tijuana. We are going to Sea World tomorrow."

Claire replied, "I'm not going to recommend anyone to visit California."

Hattie replied, "I would e-mail to all of my friends to warn them not to visit California as protest against MTBE. They can forward it to others hoping the word gets out."

The next morning, Dinah noticed the gasoline was leaking out from their old SUV. Russell called the tow truck and Andrew came with the tow truck. Russell said, "I didn't expect you coming. Is one of us going to die?"

Andrew replied, "No, I just want to tell you to get all the gaskets replaced in the fuel line and you will need a new fuel pump since MTBE has known to eat the gasket. That's what cause the car fire. The other cause of car fire is overheating of the engine especially from hot weather. When you leave, You should drive up through Sierras to avoid driving in hot deserts. The hot weather causes cars to stall out which results of freeway pileups. When you do gas up here in California, be sure you cover your nose with a handkerchief. People have been getting heart attacks and stroke from breathing in that fuel. It also has known to cause cancers."

While their old SUV being repaired, they took the bus to Sea World. After that, they were heading to Colorado.