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Unfortunately, scientific reports on the widely disclosed environmental dangers of using MTBE in gasoline still routinely repeat the state and federal EPA propaganda that MTBE and other oxygenates such as ethanol are beneficial to cleaning the air. Our best University of California scientists commissioned by the State of California and many others long ago reported that “there is no significant additional air quality benefit to the use of oxygenates such as MTBE in reformulated gasoline relative to the alternative CaRFG2 (California Reformulated Gas) non-oxygenated formulations.” The only reason for oxygenates has been to enrich the oil companies and Midwest corn producers, no matter what the cost to consumers and the damage to the environment. The EPA has now become the Environmental Pollution Agency.

Bill Wattenburg
San Francisco, Calif.