This is just plain old graft and corruption. They can rifine clean burning unleaded gasoline WITHOUT EITHER of these assinine additives!!!
Both "W" and Davis are being complicit in bleeding the public at the behest of entrenched bureaucrats in Sacramento and D.C. Archer Daniels Midland now rules both food and fuel production nationwide.
The wheels are really coming off this society in a hurry!!!
I agree that the additives are assinine, but I don't think the gasoline burns as cleanly without them. If the oil companies didn't have to buy ADM ethanol to put in their product to make it meet CARB standards, they wouldn't.
Each gallon of ethanol-based gasoline will contain about 6 percent ethanol, compared with 11 percent MTBE per gallon.
'Till I read this I thought MTBE was an additive, not a frigging 'component' of every gallon I bought.
On the bright side, my lawnmower recommends using fuels without enthanol to protect the fuel system.
"Free at last, free at last,
when 'dis mower blows up
I be cuttin' no mo grass".