RE: For those of you who don't like oxygenated gas

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

At 04:52 PM 7/27/99 -0700, James Desveaux wrote:

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>As for taking a couple of years to phase it out, that's not surprising.  My
>guess is that it will take awhile to make the necessary adjustments at the
>refineries, since it's more complicated than just removing the stuff, if it
>does affect, say, octane levels.

MTBE (methyl-tert-butyl ether) can easily be replaced with ethanol.
Ethanol production will need to be ramped up some to allow for the
production of a huge amount of added production, though.  Ethanol also
increases octane ratings. Ethanol can be produced from a variety of
sources, one of which at least, is a renewable resource, corn.  

Now let's don't get too involved in discussing the now-renewable resources
used in producing that corn.  :-(

I'm not too thrilled with the idea of ethanol in fuel for my S6, either.

>Furthermore, since apparently insufficient research was done regarding the
>safety of MTBE, in my view it's perfectly reasonable for the gov't to force
>its phase-out, but it's unreasonable for uncle sugar, or California, to
>require an immediate cessation.  Gov't makes mistakes; industry makes
>mistakes.  

>California already decided to end the use of MTBE some time ago.
>
>- Jim
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   Bob
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