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Refiners have little choice but to continue using the additive . . .
Taking EPA's direction further, California state government required oxygenate use statewide. Of the two primary oxygenate types, alcohols and ethers, California refiners were stuck with the latter. Alcohol additives, primarily ethanol, are produced from corn in the Midwest. Even if there were enough ethanol to meet California's needs, getting it there is not economically feasible. The suit, according to the organization's legal director, Richard Drury, was filed last fall, is now in discovery, and is on a fast track to go to trial within a year.