[lbo-talk] $3 gas by next week?

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I could tell you the story in boring detail.
Litigating this stuff is a  lot of what I do for a
living . There is no "autumn grade" gas that I know
of. Under the Clean air Act Amendments of 1990, 41 CO
nonattainment zone, including all major metro areas
must use highly oxygenated gas in the winter; in the
summer, the nine major metro areas with  the most
severe ozone pollution must use reformulated gas with
about quarter less oxygen. I don't believe these are
actually more expensive to the consumer at the pump.
The oxygenation until recently has been poovided for
by some methanol-containing stuff called MTBE (the
subject of my litigation) in the east, South, Gulph
Coast, and California. In the midwest it is provided
by ethanol in the main. MTBE is no more expensive than
gasoline when as usual, from what I understand)
methaniol in cheap. Ethanol is about twice the cost of
MTBE but is subsidized by the government. Environental
issues have led California and New York to ban MTBE. 
Ethanol is more expensive to ship to the coasts, but
as I understand it the incresae in gas prices is
pretty uniform. I think whatever is going on doesn't
go back to the CAAA and the MTBE bans.

Isn't that more than you wanted to know?

--- jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:


> > What is autumn grade gasoline?
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Michael Perelman
> 
> Summer-grade is produced to a more strick
> environmental standard. I know it's lower in sulpher
> and more 
> expensive to manufacture. There is an autumn-grade
> and a winter-grade which are made to less strict 
> standards. Presumably because warm humid air holds
> pollutants airborne more effectively but I've never 
> researched the specifics.
> 
> John Thornton
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