Ok Arthur, time to get chopping

Turns out "boutique" blends of fuels may not be responsible for higher gas prices. It seems that higher gas prices are due to supply and demand, that oil comes from highly volatile parts of the world (where real distribution problems exist) and the fact that there are no competing products to drive prices down. While it's fun to blame the environmentalists and their wacky birkenstocks for the fact that it's real expensive to fuel up the SUV, blaming the additives is like a 500 pound man blaming that last dougnut for ballooning up to 501. He can yell at that doughnut all day long, but the reality is that skipping it wouldn't turn him into Brad Pitt.