4.18 Consider This: To MTBE or Not to MTBE? That Is the Question Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has
been a foe of California’s request for a waiver of the Clean Air Act requirement
for oxygenates. He predicts a need of 500 million additional gallons of ethanol
per year to meet the replacement. - What might be the basis for the Senator’s opposition?
- Does his prediction of 500 million additional gallons of ethanol per
year seem reasonable? Why?
- What would be the likely position of the National Corn Growers Association
on this replacement? Find out at their web site. Does it agree with your original
answer?
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