Chaplin,
California has MTBE in their gas and it is really bad. It does all the things you stated plus it pollutes the water and is poisionus. ( spelled wrong ). Our Emperor and the Governor of Nevada had a deal a few years ago to get rid of it and Nevada did but Emperor Davis took several million from the
oil companies so they didn't have to get rid of it. I don't think Nevada will allow anyone from Calif. to bring a boat into the state with gas in it now. I know one person who was going to Lake Mead and he had his boat full of Calif. gas. They stopped him and he got a large fine, plus they took the boat to a safe disposal place to have that gas removed and he had to pay for that. Several wells and lakes in Calif. are polluted by that crap but it just costs to mcuh to make them stop putting it in the gas.
Ron