What Others Are Saying

Demonizing for Dollars
Forbes, Nov. 15, 2004

"The latest bonanza for tort lawyers: going after Big Oil for MTBE, the gasoline additive. Never mind there's no proof the stuff is harmful. There's too much money to be made."

Energy Producers Operated Under an MTBE Mandate
The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2005, Letter to the Editor

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources when the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments were put in place, I can assure you Congress and the EPA went into the MTBE process with eyes open. We recognized that, among the fuel additives the government was mandating for use in cleaning smog-prone city air, MTBE was the only commercially viable alternative at the time. MTBE's water solubility risks and ability to clean the air were trade-offs we faced.

J. Bennett Johnston
(Former Sen. Johnston chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 1986 to 1994.)

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