Re: [ihc] Octane selection

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

The CA EPA watered down the
recommendations????????????

I thought only republicans did terrible things like
that.

Steve

--- John Hofstetter <hofs@domain.elided> wrote:

> On Aug 17, 2004, at 7:15 AM, John M. Adams wrote:
> 
> > John, is that due to the MTBE? What's the latest
> on that disaster? Are 
> > they
> > still on track to lose that like Davis promised?
> As I remember, it 
> > came out
> > of the pump smelling bad already, and only got
> worse if it sat. Not to
> > mention the 101 other problems...
> > John A.
> 
> I assume that the MTBE is at least part of the
> problem with our gas 
> deterioration.  Davis set a date for the MTBE to be
> gone from our gas, 
> but scuttlebutt has it that getting it out of the
> gas isn't going to 
> happen for many many years, in California.
> 
> We Californians are already paying the highest
> prices in the nation for 
> gas, and all that has to happen to get us off MTBE's
> case, is to 
> suggest that eliminating MTBE would raise the price
> of fuel.
> 
> I've read that the MTBE is a byproduct from the
> refinery process and 
> that putting it into the gas rather than ethanol has
> the side benefit 
> (?) of getting rid of the stuff.
> 
> Gasoline with ethanol is apparently destructive of
> pipelines, whereas 
> MTBE causes no problems with pipelines. Again, a
> factor that could 
> raise prices.
> 
> We have, as you probably know, a terrible problem
> here in California 
> with the MTBE contaminating ground water.
> 
> The EPA appointed a Blue Ribbon Commission to study
> the problems caused 
> by MTBE and made some pretty strong recommendations,
> which the EPA 
> watered way down to a number of pretty weak
> suggestions.
> 
> John
> 
> John Hofstetter
> Ol' Saline
> www.goldrush.com/~hofs