[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by john70t

Was it the EPA, CARB, or petrol industry which backed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBE_controversy ?

The gumbint came up with a stupid law and said the refining industry must comply if they wanted to stay in biddness. The industry said how we gonna do that?
They looked for solutions said how about MTBE? The gubmint said yeah, that's a good idea.
Later they pretended they had nothing to do with it.
I was there.

Your link left out the important parts.