>Even the EPA, who mandated we put MTBE
>in our gas,
NO THEY DID NOT! They mandated an oxygenating agent. Big oil likes it to
be MTBE, because they make it. The farm lobby wants it to be ethanol,
because they grow the material. We have farmers in Minnesota, not oil
companies, so it's never been MTBE here, always ethanol.
>admits that it's probably a carcinogen (like many other
>components of petrol), and is a serious hazard to the environment. Their
>standards for 'hazardous waste spill' indicate that MTBE is 10 times more
>dangerous than Benzene ...
So the farm lobby actually saved us from the groundwater pollution. Then
again the folks on West Seventh Street don't much like the smell from the
ethanol plant at Minnesota Brewing. The smells from brewing Pig's Eye
Pilsner and Landmark beer seemed not that strong, but this ethanol plant
brings tears to your eyes. I can smell it sometimes at my place on the
other side of the Mississippi.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.
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