Thomas Daschle: “I think the Senator disagreed, for good reason, because if we set goals oftentimes, as a country working within…”

“I think the Senator disagreed, for good reason, because if we set goals oftentimes, as a country working within government and within the industry, we achieve them. Oftentimes, without the role of some goal-setting, we never achieve anything beyond where we are today. We did with CAFE in the past. I think we can do that with ethanol now. This is a goal, just as the Senator supported CAFE as a goal. We failed on that. I hope in this case we can achieve it. The Senator understandably is concerned about price hikes. As I said a moment ago, if we are concerned about price hikes, I think we ought to be concerned about what happens when we phase out MTBE in a vacuum, because that is where we are going to get price hikes. We are going to get serious price hikes when we start relying on these imported products for which we are not certain of supply and we are certainly not certain of price.”