[Carry_Okie]

As far as I am concerned, with all the information available, and all the evidence piled up over the last ten years, this claim of Davis' can no longer be claimed to be mere stupidity, but instead should be prosecuted as criminal malfeasance and probably graft. Enough is enough.

[Grampa Dave]

One of the enviro whackos up here was claiming that without MTBE in our gasoline, we wouldn't have enough oil to meet our demands. (I can't remember the ratio, but at least 10% of each Kali gasoline gallon at our pumps is MTBE).

Of course the addition of this percentage of MTBE drops the mileage per gallon by at least 10%. So it would be an even wash just to remove the expensive MTBE.

Then, like you said we could use gas from Nevada, Arizona, Oregon or Washington without the MTBE.

When I mentioned the loss of mileage due to the MTBE addition and the removal of it would bring back the mileage the whacko just looked at me. He refused to comment on the loss of mileage with the addition of MTBE to our gasoline.

Whenever I fish the Upper Russian River, I buy gas from a station without MTBE. The mileage on my Bronco on the road goes from about 15 to 17+mpg or a 13.33% increase in mpg due to no MTBE in the gasoline. Whenever, I drive to Brookings from here I can barely make it into Brookings to buy gasoline on a single tank of gasoline. When I feel up in Brookings (no MTBE), Or. and drive home, I arrive home with over a quarter of tank of gas left in my Bronco on that fillup in Oregon.

This whole additive thing is a farce. One of the best auto/tuners in town told us that most Japanese cars/trucks since the early 1990's need zero additives to meet the epa stamdards re clean air. Then American autos since 1994 need zero additives to meet the clean air standards.

Last but not least, the energy demands to blend and stabilize the mtbe as you pointed out is very high.