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To: GVTucker who wrote (100773)	5/12/2008 9:32:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206085

To remove tetra-ethyl lead we could have gone the way of the US and mandating MTBE. To discover then that MTBE pollutes ground water and then be forced to go mandate ethanol to get rid of MTBE. Instead of getting rid of sulphur, lead and MTBE, we just advocate getting rid of the whole gasoline. :-) It must be noted that there's no country in this planet with the US deep pockets. The ramifications of having the world's reserve currency os huge! What passes as a way of life in the US, in other places it is taking from the mouth of one and feeding another. There are no two-party system that keep the "action among friends". There is disruptions every time a government changes. So it is not easy to keep the collusions in place. As a result if there's a sector sucking the state's teat it can be removed from one day to another. There are no army of lawyers making billions dollar lawuits, and government mandating the economy to abide to stuff the successfull lobbyst won. In the case of MTBE: The other countries in the world, which account for about 1/2 of 2004 production, MTBE will continue and even grow. There's a different world out there. That makes very hard for Americans (I am not saying that you are that person.) to understand the connected world. They always tend to refer to the US model they are used to.