[SierraWasp]

"I'm awestruck with that post."

ME TOO!!! You've caused me to "BOOKMARK" this thread. No wonder you were asking me what that San Fran Fed EPA Lady admitted to a room full of CA County Supervisors about the NRDC and MTBE!!! (those are two dirty four letter words, you know)

SNOPERCOD is exactly correct in his appraisal of your magnificently researched reply. It confirms the scope of this whole energy/oxygenate manipulation through orchestration and who's really behind it. Most people lack the concentration powers to comprehend the scope, but you have begun to help them connect the crucial "dots!"

I will never forget the hearings/meetings/conferences on MTBE in Sacramento and the Lobbyists on their cellphones with excruciatingly worried looks on their faces. Also the subtle, almost mysteriously subtle phone calls I recieved as I composed the resolution to submit for my board to approve in 1997 to make my county that includes the jewel of the Pacific Rim, (Lake Tahoe) "MTBE FREE!

[snopercod]

...mysteriously subtle phone calls...

Like: "We know where your grandkids go to school."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You are right. And much of the old gang is on this thread. I'll see if I can find my ping list having spend the last many weeks upgrading and rebuilding (many errors alone the way ) my computer.