1) There's only really been two oxygenates in use to comply with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments: MTBE and Ethanol. MTBE has been banned in about 25 states because it pollutes groundwater and it's expensive to clean up. People don't want to drink that stuff. Other oxygenates included TAME, DIPE, TBA, and ETBE, but they weren't ever widely used.

2) If you live in a non-attainment zone where RFG was required (LIKE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA) you are using "e10" or at least about 8% ethanol, because you need about 8% ethanol to meet the 2.0% oxygenate requirement for RFG. The EPA announced last week (or maybe the week before) they were going to revoke the 2.0% oxygenate requirement, so that might change soon. But as of now, ethanol is how oil companies meet the oxygenate requirement in RFG.

3) No significant advantage to E85? Most of the terrorists from 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia, except those that came from the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates state-owned company, Dubai Ports World now wants to buy 6 ports in the US. Many of these, if not all of these ports ship items out to our troops in Iraq. Iraq is a country where we're spending $250 BILLION that had no conection to 9/11. So we're letting a country that was allegedly a nexus for funding the 9/11 attacks control our ports, which are already woefullly insecure?

This is to say that I can give you 250 BILLION reasons; 2,200 American lives; and 30,000 innocent civillians' lives why it might be smart to start looking toward E85. As George Bush said, "America is addicted to oil." It needs to stop and e85, biodisel ,and bicycles is a good way to start.