Working in refining exposes one to lots of things that cause cancer. Especially in decades past.Great informative post.
My uncle worked in the MTBE plant for Exon. He made 60 and cancer took over his body. From what I heard a lot of guys that worked in that plant suffered the same.
I have a friend who’s father worked in the same plant but doesn’t seem to have been effected. He must be in his late 70’s by now.
In many respects MTBE was a much better oxygenated than ethanol. It's also still widely used in race fuel. The problem with it was it had a very strong taste so once in the groundwater it was very apparent. In typical EPA fashion instead of going after leaky storage tanks they went after MTBE.