To: gao seng who wrote (230360 ) 2/23/2002 9:46:19 PM From: ThirdEye Read Replies (1) | Respond to "Governor Whitman has been an outstanding champion of open-space preservation in New Jersey. Her support for the Farm Land Preservation Act generated a serious effort among New Jersey farmers to build an ethanol production facility in the state. Governor Whitman has also been a leading advocate of banning MTBE from our nation's gasoline," said Eric Vaughn, President of the Renewable Fuels Association. "The U.S. ethanol industry looks forward to continuing to work with Governor Whitman in her new role to promote the production and use of clean, domestic ethanol to reduce air pollution and protect our drinking water."ethanolrfa.org uswaternews.com In June, President-Select George W. Bush issued an order requiring California to use ethanol as a gasoline additive. Prior to Davis's order and the Bush ruling, California had been using the petroleum-based additive MTBE to reduce air pollution from vehicles. The administration's ruling meant California, one of nation's largest consumers of gasoline, lost its exemption from forced ethanol use."This was political pandering to the farm lobby and the other companies that benefit from increased ethanol," Keith Ashdown of the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense told the Des Moines Register. He cited in particular ADM as the largest beneficiary of a federal tax break on ethanol that was extended in 1998. populist.com
