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To: DMaA who wrote (35589)	3/19/2004 10:59:22 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793858

epa mandates various cleaner gasoline. by area. if you are outside the area then you get a another gasoline mix. Now some states have gone and passed laws to adopt a gasoline blend that Ca. uses. Ma. and a few others.. this is a different mix than the epa foumular, the regular forumlar and i think costs about 10 or 15 cents more a gallon. Now in mid west you have blends with grain alcohol mandated by states to help farmers and uncle sam kicks in a 5 cents a gallon to help out. this is now another formular of gas.. and that's from the top of my head. Now try ship that down a pipeline and into storage tanks or barges, to a terminal that delivers to various blended areas. it is a mess and costly.

To: DMaA who wrote (35589)	3/19/2004 11:07:30 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793858

My understanding is that localities with particular pollution problems (or particular economies, such as corn <g>) opted for certain in collaboration with the feds. For others it was mandated. I recall it as a negotiated process with states, industry, the feds, etc. A mixed bag of local option and federal prescription. As with most things where there is a choice over whether to have choice, there is overhead and inefficiency either way. I had though that, in general, the country prefered the inefficiency of choice over the inefficiency of one size fits all.