Word: ethanol
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...must do better than we are doing. We should cap carbon emissions from power plants and make cars and trucks more efficient. Renewable fuels like ethanol from corn and other biomass sources can displace oil in vehicles, if we help create the opportunity...
Methanex wants U.S. taxpayers to compensate it for $970 million in profits it would lose as a result of a California MTBE phaseout. CEO Pierre Choquette asserts, "We believe the ban of MTBE was politically motivated" to favor the U.S.-made gasoline additive ethanol "and has no scientific merit." The company's director of investor relations, Brad Boyd, says, "California should make sure its underground gas tanks don't leak. That's what would protect the public...
Methanex further disputes California's reasons for banning MTBE, saying benzene and other gasoline components are "more hazardous." It accuses California Governor Gray Davis of ordering the ban because he received campaign contributions from a U.S. manufacturer of ethanol. Davis denies the charge. State officials cite studies showing that MTBE causes cancer in lab animals and symptoms such as headache and nausea in humans. The federal EPA is also considering a ban. Unlike other gasoline components that stick to the soil when they leak, MTBE is unusually solvent, escaping from even reinforced tanks and moving rapidly into nearby water wells...
...that's expected to attract 200 amendments - well, there's just so much to fight about. ANWR and Yucca, CAFE standards and fuel cells. Should we subsidize coal to help make it cleaner, or subsidize cleaner energy? Give more tax breaks for producers, or for conservers? What about ethanol? And of course there's the deregulation fight, and the very NIMBYist issue of transmission-grid siting, which brings us back to Enron and California all over again...
...electoral votes. No big surprise, as the threat of executions is a very big motivator." And later, "Bush has swept the South... I seem to remember these states getting together once before. I can't remember when, I don't recall, I think it was something over the ethanol tax--or wait--was it, oh, that's right, the Civil...