Blame the enviromentalist!!!!
The “Naderite” environmentalists certainly do their part. The Carol Browner EPA under the Clinton administration (more a Gore thing than a Clinton thing, though) was extreme to say the least. I covered a number of environmental issues in the 1990s and found myself against EPA policy almost without fail. And I consider myself very much to be pro environment. However, as far as reformulated gasoline is concerned, you have to talk to the good folks over at ADM about that
The environmentalists are good tools for the ADM folks to use, but ADM is the 800 lb gorilla where "clean" fuels are concerned.
Y’all get so worried about some inner city welfare mother skimming food stamps, when some of these corporations are riding so high on your tax dollars through subsidies that I wonder if they need to actually sell products to other customers. For each gallon of ethanol added to gasoline $.50 is taken from our highway funds to make it “economical.” In fact, ADM just managed to push through a sweeping ethanol mandate to put a product in gasoline that makes it harder (more expensive) to distribute, that’s a wash environmentally and that provides inconsequential benefits where “reducing our dependence on foreign oil” is concerned. Funny thing is, farmers (and critical farm Senators) support this, but to meet the mandate non-farm sources of ethanol production will have to be developed. Currently, biomass production is expensive, but give it a few years and farmers may find themselves increasingly cut out of the loop.
Charon
