Re: Is New Orleans finished ?


"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:793ph155b14fgke5890fvm3mla21kjlktk@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:54:00 -0700, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
> <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >The problem was that the scientists didn't make the decision to use MTBE.
> >The politicians made that decision at the urging of the producers of
MTBE.
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >
> >> I am not a chemical engineer. Still I had serious concerns when they
> >> mandated oxygenators into CA gas and picked MTBE. "Trust the scientists
> >> who know, yada, yada, yada". Sure enough it did leach and turn into a
huge
> >> problem. Many decision maker's reaction to that was "oh s..t".
> >
>
> Now that the ground water has been ruined by MTBE (foisted on us by
> the Pollyanna greenie liberal weenies), it's being phased out. Now
> the liberal weenies will have to find yet another poison to screw up
> our society.

Actually it was foisted on us by the oil companies, who could make MTBE in
their refineries and didn'thave to meet the fuel-oxygenation requirement by
buying alcohol from the Midwest farming weenies.

Or in big-money terms, Exxon beat ADM, and we all got screwed.




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