Methanol Institute - supporters of MTBE and $$ over humanity [View All]

[Mr_Spock]

http://www.methanol.org/

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Methanol Institute - disgusting industry propaganda - go read for yourself - http://www.methanol.org/ . Oh, and they show themselves to be quite friendly toward their competition - a fuel known a ethanol that is renewable. Even I know that ethanol isn't a great alternate fuel (for various practical reasons), but it is unseemly for the methanol institute to be bashing them since methanol, although it has some chemical advantages over ethanol, is essentially just another fossil fuel at this point. When oil prices go up, so does methanol - what's so great about that? I sent the email below to them after reading a few of thier "select" studies on MTBE and their alarms about the impact on fuel prices by not protecting the industry from law suits (energy bill)!

"I was looking for methanol today and I discovered your web site during a search. I noticed it wasn't a sales site, but I did see several articles about MTBE. They all seemed to be biased toward describing MTBE as a minor threat to people and a major threat to the price of gasoline. Then I read that MTBE was mostly methanol (which I was wondering at this point). I use methanol as a cooling medium in my turbocharged vehicle BTW. I actually like methanol as a fuel from what I have read, but the featured promotion of an environmental poison (MTBE) and the unnecessary bashing of ethanol as an alternative fuel (which, unlike methanol, IS renewable) totally disgusted me. Anyone who knows about methanol knows that is is just an extension of a fossil fuel and it is impractical to produce as a renewable fuel except possibly in enormous volumes. Anyway, I found the general anti-humananity, pro $$ message on your site reprehensible. I am now not very fond of methanol as a fuel as you have taken the slash and burn attitude so common with our oil companies - and, in fact, your industry is merely an extension of the oil industry. Shame on you. Even with the most strict method of sampling and measuring, you were still seing 4 in 10,000 likely drinking water sources contaminated with MTBE at higher than EPA acceptable standards and you consider that good? Sick people, very violenty sick :( ."

Put that in you pipe methanol industry :smoke: