[farmfriend]

"It sounds like those who poisoned our water with MTBE will get off scot-free," Boxer said in a statement.

Good God, something she and I agree on. Did hell freeze today?

[pacpam]

It was the state of CA that brought us that MTBE and their insistance that the tanks be purged between each change for cold weather and hot weather mixtures that caused shortages. CA could have adopted ethanol instead of MTBE and didn't; and we would have avoided the contamination if they had. Blame the politicians at least at the same level as the lobbiests who pushed MTBE. Never did understand how lowering mileage, but only burning a little cleaner lowered the total polution level. New cars did that and the car buying craze certainly helped.

[Not now, Not ever!]

"It sounds like those who poisoned our water with MTBE will get off scot-free," Boxer said in a statement".

I would have thought she would have supported this as it was her rat friends in Sacramento that origionaly required it to be added to our states gasoline.

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, it was scumbag simpletons like Boxer who wanted MTBE in gasoline to begin with, to make the gas "burn cleaner". Oil companies were compelled to start using the crap by the EPA and now when we find out that the tradeoff for "cleaner air" is "dirtier water", the scumbag lawyers want to go after those deep, deep pockets.

I agree with the provision that prevents lawsuits against the oil companies for adding MTBE to their gasoline. In the end, it would only be us consumers (as usual) who feather the nests of the scumbag lawyers.

[SierraWasp]

Oh she finally jumped on the belated bandwagon after all the dang damage was done. (barf!) She also screamed that Lake Shasta and the upper Sacramento river were eternally poisoned after that train tipped over a few years ago.

What a total, unmitigated DING-BAT!!!

[Carry_Okie]

It sounds like those who poisoned our water with MTBE will get off scot-free," Boxer said in a statement.

Quick, somebody do a search. Given that the Sierra Club supported MTBE Boxer absolutely HAD to have supported its use at one time and, of course, said so vociferously.