[NormsRevenge]

The panel said it would still be willing to consider allegations that Davis and other California leaders sought to punish a foreign company by banning MTBE.

I still Say .. :-)
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[supercat]

Is there any sound environmental reason that MTBE shouldn't be replaced with a substance which was developed many decades ago as a cleaning solvent, commonly known as "gasoline"?

[Syncro]

Gasoline...apparantly too easy.

Canada needs the money selling MTBE to the US or NAFTA will get us.

The oil companies are forced to use it and so they get sued...not the Gov or Canada politicans for forcing us to keep using it.

And of couse the enviromentalists love it. Gasoline spilled from jet skis sits on top of the water and evaporates; with MTBE in it it coeleces with the water and contaminates it. Therefore they can ban watersports as shown Here

I remember reading some time ago that MTBE is a waste product (hazardous material of course) that the oil companies had to dispose of in a costly manner.

What better use to put it to then to add it to the gas and make millions of $'s from it.

[chudogg]

Yet another example of enviromental regulations run amuck. Not surpising at all that this happens in california.

I was outraged a few years ago when I first saw this. NAFTA was supposed to be an increase in pure capatalism. Now we are going to have a three member panal make decisions for us?

This sets a a very bad and dangerous precedent. And it wont be long before scores of companies began doing the same thing.