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[Carry_Okie]

This is garbage and probably payback from Davis to California refiners and gasoline distributors. California RFG (what DG calls a boutique formulation) inhibits refiners from out of state selling their product in California. It also consumes a great deal of natural gas to produce. Getting rid of RFG would reduce the price of electricity by making more natural gas available for power generation without constructing new pipeline capacity. It would make more gasoline from out of state sources available and thus LOWER gasoline prices in California, which have been among the highest in the nation for nearly a decade.

[Myrddin]

MTBE is only added during the winter months. The summer gas supply normally doesn't have it. All they need to do is make "summer" gas all the time. The gas prices are spiking anyway. Prices in San Diego were $1.23 on 2-18-02 and are running $1.51 now at the same station. In Pocatello, ID the prices were at $1.02 and went to $1.19 overnight.

[Pushi]

I think MTBE should be banned in Kalifornia. Wonder how Davis could spend the taxpayers money buying up gasoline?

[antidemocommie]

Here we go again! Its getting close to summer driving season, and its time to spike oil prices!

Lets see....they probably want $100.00 dollars per gallon, but will settle with $2.00 to $3.00

[yoe]

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-TOX/2000/March/Day-24/t7323.htm
Federal Register: March 24, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 58)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 16093-16109]

"...In some cases this requirement is met through the use of MTBE. While the use of MTBE as a fuel additive in gasoline has helped to reduce harmful air emissions, it has also caused widespread and serious contamination of the nation's drinking water supplies. Unlike other components of gasoline, MTBE dissolves and spreads readily in the groundwater underlying a spill site, resists biodegradation, and is difficult and costly to remove from groundwater. Low levels of MTBE can render drinking water supplies unpotable due to its offensive taste and odor. At higher levels, it may also pose a risk to human health. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has found that the occurrence of MTBE in groundwater is strongly related to its use as a fuel additive in the area, finding detections of MTBE in 21% of ambient groundwater tested in areas where MTBE is used in RFG compared with 2% of ambient groundwater in areas using conventional gasoline. EPA is today providing an advance notice of its intent to initiate a rulemaking pursuant to section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to eliminate or limit the use of MTBE as a fuel additive. EPA seeks public comment on a number of aspects of this anticipated regulatory action, including whether the Agency should take action to address any fuel additives other than MTBE."

The EPA is responsible for this poison now in much of the nation's water from east to west, north and south. The all powerful EPA rammed this down the collective and gullible congressional throats, who once again accepted bad science for votes. Ethanol is only slightly less harmful but then ADM gives mightily to both parties.