From the Baltimore Sun, 9/9/04:
"Beware of Congress always, but particularly at this time of year. Lawmakers are in a hurry to get done whatever they need to get done and go home. Sometimes really bad laws get made. One such measure awaiting a final push is the wildly misguided energy bill - a $19 billion package of subsidies for the energy industry to which supporters want to add one last insult: a taxpayer
bailout for manufacturers of the cancer-causing fuel additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE).
In other words, they want to shift legal liability for damage caused by MTBE contamination away from oil companies that make a profit from selling the stuff and foist it instead on everyone who pays the gasoline tax because they think that proposition has a better chance of winning enactment."
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