Emulsified water-blended fuel compositions

An emulsified water-blended fuel composition comprising:

• (A) about 50 to about 99% by weight of a hydrocarbon boiling in the gasoline or diesel range;
• (B) about 1 to about 50% by weight of water
• (C) a minor emulsifying amount of at least one fuel-soluble salt comprised of (I) a first polycarboxylic acylating agent, said first polycarboxylic acylating agent having at least one hydrocarbyl substituent of about 20 to about 500 carbon atoms, (II) a second polycarboxylic acylating agent, said second polycarboxylic acylating agent optionally having at least one hydrocarbyl substituent of up to about 500 carbon atoms, said polycarboxylic acylating agents (I) and (II) being coupled together by (III) a linking group derived from a linking compound having two or more primary amino groups, two or more secondary amino groups, at least one primary amino group and at least one secondary amino group, at least two hydroxyl groups, or at least one primary or secondary amino group and at least one hydroxyl group, said polycarboxylic acylating agents (I) and (II) forming a salt with (IV) ammonia or an amine;
• and
• (D) about 0.001 to about 15% by weight of an emulsion stabilizing water-soluble salt distinct from component (C) represented by the formula
• k[G(NR3)Y]y+nXP− (D-I)
• wherein in formula (D-I), G is hydrogen, or an organic neutral radical of 1 to about 8 carbon atoms having a valence of y;
• each R independently is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group of 1 to about 10 carbon atoms, XP− is an anion having a valence of p;
• and k, y, n, and p are independently at least 1, provided that when G is H, y is 1;
• and further provided that the sum of the positive charge ky+ is equal to the sum of the negative charge np− such that the salt is electrically neutral.