The stuff dripping out of the tail pipe is really water.  This is a product
of the Catalytic Converter turning hydrocarbons in hydro (water) and
CO2.  O.K., this is a simplified answer but correct.  you prolly don't want
to drink it since water will pick-up all sorts of nasty stuff in the tail pipe.

Chris Smith
Last week as unemployed bum

At 12:36 PM 12/27/01 -0600, Stan Wilder wrote:
>It sure sounds funny doesn't it......... I use the term WATER because if
>you run 25% alcohol you can dump in another 5% of water and the alcohol
>will mix with it......... Ha! Water Injection, not quite. Fuel detonation
>for sure.
>I just wondering and I knew you'd know the answer to this: What is that
>stuff that drips out you tail pipe in winter months?
>I've been told that it was water but never bothered to drink any or put a
>match to it.
>
>Stan
>
>On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:18:28 -0600 (CST) CTONLINE@webtv.net (Terry Kay)
>writes:
> > Stan Wilder Writes;
> >
> > "Unleaded fuel in the Cities is full of anti pollutant compounds (
> > water
> > )"
> >
> > Bwa , Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, !!!
> >
> > Sorry Stanley, not this time---
> > Crazy men have been trying to get the internal combustion engine to
> > run
> > on water for 100 years--guess what--- it don't work.
> >
> > The stuff in the Cities does have however additives to allegedly
> > make
> > the fuel burn cleaner, which they have found not to work--
> > The government is now gearing up to replace this clean burn garbage
> > to
> > plain old alcohol---farmer grown corn alcohol----
> >
> > I liked the joke about water though---:>) LOL !!!!
> >
> > Later,
> >
> >             ______________
> >            |[  ] [  ] [ ]\
> >            |    |    |    |
> >      ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-|
> >
> > Terry--
> >
> >        "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom"
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
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