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Gas prices should go down when we get rid of MTBE, because then we won't have to use this special formulation gasoline. We should be able to buy gas from anywhere and that competition should lower the prices. Do you think Mr. Davis could be lying to keep prices high, so that the gas companies will keep giving him donations for his re-election?

Gas prices should go down when we get rid of MTBE, because then we won't have to use this special formulation gasoline.

That's true, except that in the short term prices will spike up as refineries retool for a different product.

Here's another nugget for you:

All gasoline sold in CA must be refined in CA.

Now read the article with that filter on it. Interesting?

The use of either major oxygenate, whether MTBE or ethanol, constitutes a reformulation of gasoline. You'll still be using RFG, either II or IIa or whatever the tiny, tiny minds of Calbania's enviro-crats decide to order refiners to produce. Oh, yes, and pls note that ethanol is and will remain more expensive than MTBE, due to guess what?...governmental subsidization of both corn crops and ethanol production. Your tax dollars at work.

Think it can't get worse? Try again. In the 8-state Upper Midwest region, the politics of gasoline has produced requirements for -- hold your breath -- 32 separate formulations, aka 'blends'.

All that said, though, Doofus should still get rid of MTBE. It's a remarkably persistent agent, very difficult to remove in a non-laboratory situation. Further, if the US has a high-demand driving season this summer, Calbania is a dead lock for $3.00 pump prices, starting any time after the election. Of course, Calb. COULD avoid this by decertifying certain standards and eliminating quite a number of nonsensical regulations (as one poster pointed out, certain trucking regs for a start), but I won't be holding my breath on that, will you? (w!)