A move away from the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether to the use of ethanol as a blending component in gasoline would have a profound impact on a number of petroleum-dependent industries. The ...

WASHINGTON - Americans taking a summertime road trip can expect to pay about $2.50 a gallon for gasoline — just about what they're spending now, a top government forecaster told lawmakers Wednesday.

BP, the largest gasoline supplier in California, said Thursday that it will switch federally mandated fuel additives in the largest U.S. gasoline market in a move industry experts have said could ...

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HOUSTON, May 14-- BP PLC has signed contracts with several ethanol suppliers in order to phase out the use of fuel oxygenate methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in the gasoline BP sells in California ...

The use of ethanol as an additive to gasoline has proven to be successful in reducing the amount of pollution emitted by gasoline engines. Additionally, the expanded use of a domestically produced and ...

Beneath South Lake Tahoe’s “Y,” mixed in a soup of gasoline pollutants, is the chemical that is increasingly replacing the controversial MTBE. The plume of ethanol is the only one Lisa Dernbach of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Senate approved tougher pipeline safety provisions Friday and reached agreement on measures that would sharply increase the use of ethanol in gasoline, while phasing out an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Wider use of corn-based ethanol in gasoline is almost a sure thing if Congress passes a pending energy bill. In return, makers of the additive it would replace _ which has been found ...

HAILED AS a smog-fighter, substantial volumes of the gasoline additive MTBE were included in California's gasoline a decade ago. Now, MTBE is -- literally and figuratively -- a four-letter word in San ...

The Bush and Davis administrations were assailed Friday by officials of the Metropolitan Water District and several municipal water agencies for failing to act vigorously against water pollution ...

The state ban on the fuel additive MTBE was upheld in a federal appeals court this week, but drinking water supplies may be threatened by another fuel additive — ethanol, said Dennis Cocking, ...