[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.

[NormsRevenge]

Yes, It is true that MTBE is a byproduct of refining and this usage as a Air Cleaner is just another indication of how quick politicians pocket money and worry about collateral damage later.

If the weasel politicians and bureaucrats are lucky, they have moved on by the time MTBE is addressed, it will be too late for too many communities. It already is for some.

Recent judments are a drop in the bucket of what will be needed to clean it up. And you know who gets stuck with the bill in the end.

I'll see what we can dig up on this.