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Originally Posted by uffah!!
Can't understand how they can charge us to take MTBE's out of the gasoline. They should have never put it in in the first place.
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They didn't have a choice---they were required to sell "oxygenated" gas during certain months of the year in high pollution areas. Most oil companies chose MTBE as the cheaper alternative to ethanol. Hess was one of the few companies that went with ethanol from the beginning. It let Hess sell at 2-3 cent a gallon cheaper when NY banned MTBE and the other companies were scrambling to find ethanol suppliers.
Of course, in SE Mass, what few Hess staions there are sell whatever JP Noonan has in the tanker truck at delivery--just like 99% of the other brand name stations.