[Loch-Ruadh] Gas Bargain

[Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin]

It's not that additives are no longer required, jus that the required
additives have been changed.  Congress mandated that the additive MTBE
could no longer be used (after mandating several years ago that it must be
used) and that ethanol be used as a substitute.  When they decided this,
ethanol production facilities in the US were producing only about 50% of
what was needed to fill the new demand, and oil companies and gasoline
distributors had to rework existing facilities and even build new
facilities to handle the new required mixtures.  Plus, to protect domestic
ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland, Congress won't allow
cheaper ethanol to be imported from South America.  And just this morning
they voted to keep the offshore drilling ban in place.

Unhappy about your gas prices?  Thank the United States Congress.

Padraig
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Nunc est bibendum.
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Politicians prefer unarmed peasants.

pcrandal at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> I am told, by people at work, that most places outside of the Metroplex
> are around 2.60-2.70. The local dealers are blaming it on the additives.
> Which, by a recent law, they no longer are required to put in the gas. And
> as the lift stations where the big tankers fill up are in the metroplex, I
> think they are just taking profit.
>
> Kathy <dkv250 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:  And if you're on your way to
> Burleson, gas there is 2.64-2.65.
>
> Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin <padraig_ruad at irishbard.org> wrote:   If you live
> anywhere near White Settlement, or pass by it on the way to
> work, etc., you may be interested in this.
>
> A new WalMart Supercenter just opened on Clifford Street, just off Loop
> 820, and the Murphy gas station in front of the WalMart and the Albertsons
> gas station just down the street are having a bit of a price war.
>
> Regular Unleaded this morning was $2.72.9, with another 5 cents off per
> gallon at both places if you use their cards.
>
> Padraig
> --
> Nunc est bibendum.
> ******************
> ******************
> Politicians prefer unarmed peasants.
>
>
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