The EPA turned around and threatened California with the elimination of all highway transportation dollars if the state refused to comply with the oxygenate requirement. The oil companies closed ranks, and closed the markets. The oil companies, with the help of the Sierra Club and its hugely powerful lobby, convinced the EPA that only reformulated gasoline should be used. That meant, of course, that supplies were fixed, and demand exceeded the market capacity. Gas prices will go down.
Gasoline is fungible.
It will travel across the 50 states without reformulation and all of us will pay less and be safer for it. On liberal bias in the media. By William F. Buckley Jr. By Kathryn Jean Lopez. By Paul Georgia.