http://www.sightings.com/politics4/epa.htm This is a MTBE link. All
should be aware.
-----Original Message-----
From: patrick bailey <phbailey@earthlink.net>
To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Cc: mg's <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: Petrol rip off
>Have you heard of MTBE?This is the
>additive that was put in our gas in
>california to supposedly reduce
>emisissions.Now it's leaking into our
>water.This stuff also has caused
>numerous car fires as it dries out the
>rubber in fuel systems also it has
>absoulely no energy so we are getting
>10~15% less milage per gallon,I went to
>the Grand canyon last year in my wife's
>Aerostar got 18.5 mpg here 21.5 in
>arizona.Our governor has signed a bill
>to remove it but not until 2001!So our
>EPA in their wisdom forced a unknown
>product down our throats raising the
>price of gas,getting less
>milage,polluting the water supply
>without listening to people who were
>warning of this stuff for years!So yes I
>think the government would allow a
>product that reduces the IQ of children
>if the money is there.I'm convinced that
>a lot of officials got paid off by the
>oil companies.I would love to see a
>class action law suit against the
>EPA,state of california,oil companies
>making them RESPONSIBLE for their
>actions!The people who made these
>decisions should be fired and the MTBE
>should be taken out now!
>Pat
>
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