"Yer a poet and don't know it,
but yer feet sure show it,
'cause they're LONGFELLOWS!"
That MTBE is both an additive and a way to get rid of what used to be and still is a Proposition 65 TOXIC WASTE! It used to cost them millions to dispose of it, now it's so profitable that it got Pete Wilson's wife a seat on ARCO's board of directors!!!
It's way worse for your lawnmower, old truck, classic cars, etc., than ethanol.
Dog Gone, I get this information from Dr. Bill Wattenburg on KGO on Saturday and Sunday nights from 10PM on. He's testified at CARB hearings and is quite expert on his information he gets from other intimidated scientists. He strongly maintains that unleaded regular as refined before all this additive crap started met CARB standards.
This was born out in a UCDavis scientific study and CARB turned a deaf ear. We finally got Governor Davis to ban it for 2002, but he renegged under pressure from CARB and that agencies infection by enviro-nazis.
It's all Bull Scat for vested interests and EVERYBODY'S hands are dirty and the air isn't improving at the rate it has over the last 25 years because we've hit the point of dimishing returns except for making people richer that aren't doing the people any good whatsoever!!!
If this is true, it ought to be a very easy thing to prove. I have no expertise at all when it comes to the refining side of the business, so I don't know. But all it would take is someone who does know and is armed with the facts to get the truth out. Californians are not going to tolerate a gasoline shortage based on a lack of ethanol if it doesn't make any difference.