Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:40:15 AM
The great and mighty Oz, er, Goracle.
In a move that enraged midwestern senators, Louisiana Democratic Sen. Bennett Johnston tried Wednesday to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from mandating the use of ethanol in reformulated gasoline. The Senate narrowly killed the measure, voting to table it by a margin of 51 to 50. With the vote tied, Vice President Al Gore had to come in and cast the deciding vote. [...]
"This is really a gigantic flim flam to the American public," Johnston said. [...]
Under the Clean Air Act, the nation's nine smoggiest cities must begin reducing auto emissions by using a cleaner-burning fuel known as reformulated gasoline in January. Reformulated gasoline contains more oxygen than regular fuel.
Until the EPA announced its decision last month, oil refiners had a choice of boosting oxygen in reformulated gasoline with either ethanol or MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), a petroleum derivative.
They (Congress and the Democrats) told us back then it wouldn't cost us anything extra - wrong. They said this plan would be beneficial to the environment - wrong and wrong (on both ethanol and MTBE).
Why should we believe anything these morons are telling us when it come to environmental or energy policy?
And will anyone call Gore out for his decision which foisted this monster upon us?