On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 06:15:49 -0400, "mike regish"
wrote:

Only ethanol-blended gasoline has been available at New England
service stations over the past several years.

Not correct. New Hampshire sold auto fuel (in the southern counties
only) with MBTE until fairly recently. The swtich to alky was no more
than six months ago.

In the northern counties (Carroll being the one closest to me, a drive
of about thirty miles) MBTE wasn't required, and I knew more than one
car owner who made the trip weekly because he didn't like the notion
of MBTE (or is it MTBE, crikey, I don't know). I'm uncertain whether
the ethanol mandate applies there or not; I don't think it does, since
ethanol was introduced only as a substitute for MBTE.


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