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Jym Dyer wrote in message ...
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>=o= What's particularly revealing is that this crowd [those against
excessive regulation] is blaming
>"environmentalists" and "environmental groups" for the addition
>of MTBE.  As far as I know, the majority of enviromental groups
>did *not* support this (though most of them stood by and let it
>happen).
>
>=o= Communities for a Better Environment, which is one of the
>best environmental justice groups in the country, has been
>leading the fight against it:


If CBE is supporting ethanol as the oxygenate of choice, they are falling
into the same trap that they are condemning.  Any oxygenate in gasoline is
both water soluble, and a cosolvent for many hydrocarbon species that are
components of gasoline.  Hopefully, the environmentalist groups out there
will not think that the MTBE problem is unique, as I can see a very good
possibility that this problem is about to repeat itself in a slightly
different form.