“With universal income, most people simply don’t need surplus IQ. But we waste billions on repair of engines suffering with substandard gas”
It's called ethanol-free and people gladly pay a premium for it.
It's far better for your engine, it's what the car manufacturers use to determine the gas mileage, and Californians can only dream of having it.
Californians I think still remember the smog of the 90s in LA that kicked us to make our air pollution standards the highest in the nation. Going away from that I think sounds more like a nightmare than a dream for most Californians.
Flex-fuel vehicles run on E85 are required to run a tank of regular gas every few months per the manufacturer. Which is literally the opposite of what you are suggesting.
My previous machine ran for about twenty years with normal ethanol mix.
Putting it in almost any car made this century is just wasting money.
You're seeing less smog because people are driving modern cars with modern emission systems because we live in the future, smog-producing vehicles have been taken out of service, and drawing conclusions based on mere correlation of the two. It has nothing to do with ethanol.
I imagine automation would be difficult because the same topics come from different sources and occasionally there is additional/novel information in similarly titled postings.
Which is a telling bug for a bot to have.