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I can absolutely believe that the Federal government did it for that reason, but I think it was my own State (California) that gave them the political cover bec

by SllX 3y ago

I can absolutely believe that the Federal government did it for that reason, but I think it was my own State (California) that gave them the political cover because our dumbasses thought it was a genuinely good idea 20 years ago and we mandated ethanol in gasoline first (California has corn farms, but we are not a big corn-growing State so much as a big almost-everything-else-growing State).

toomuchtodo 3y ago
Ethanol is better than what it replaced, MTBE, hence California’s mandate. The problem was when the ag lobby started advocating for ethanol blends in excess of what is necessary to capture more subsidies. https://web.archive.org/web/20180407183020/https://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/gasoline/carfg3/carfg3.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20180407183020/https://www.arb.c... https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/MTBE_FactSheet.html https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/MTBE_FactSheet.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_tert-butyl_ether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_tert-butyl_ether