On Friday 15th March, California Governor Gray Davis postponed by one year the deadline to ban MTBE as a fuel additive across California. Through an executive order, he extended the MTBE Ban from January 1, 2003 until January 1, 2004.
The Governor's primary messages justifying this position were :
- Federal Government did not respond with a waiver on fuel oxygenates - Consequences of importing 900 million gallons of ethanol could drive gasoline consumer prices to $3.
