MTBE BILL
March 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
A REWRITTEN US Senate energy bill would see the use of ethanol in cars tripled and the unpopular gasoline oxygenate MTBE phased out in four years. A compromise was struck that tried to please the oil and gas, environmental, and agricultural sectors. The bill will scrap the requirement that at least two per cent of gasoline is oxygenate, in areas with heavy air pollution. In exchange, the package will see a renewable fuel standard in which part of the United States' fuel supply, growing to 5 billion gallons by 2012, must be provided by renewable, ...
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