A Review of Natural Gas Joe

A review of Natural Gas Joe!
By Rob

Natural Gas Joe is a character that’s used to teach folks how to recognize the smell of Mercaptan or Ethanethiol. To be more accurate it goes by several names and I think the Ethanethiol is in error, see here (props to the Wikipedia article on Mercaptan):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanethiol


It’s kinda cute. On the surface the reader would likely think that this is a fart zine. It’s not. It is a neat way to present this information to kids and adults alike.

Natual Gas Joe

Unfortunately the scratch and sniff portion didn’t smell like anything at all so the purpose was more or less defeated. This is not to say that this zine shouldn’t be picked up. It’s a short, easy read. I like the motivation behind the zine so I'm putting it down in a way to support it. To help the cause you can go google Mercaptain and you'll find gas companies that will send you the scratch and sniff flyer. Something to pass along, no pun intended.