{"id":2581,"date":"2002-06-29T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2002-06-29T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2002-06-29T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2002-06-29T16:52:03","slug":"the-song-remains-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2581","title":{"rendered":"THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Mercury News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/3569829.htm\">Davis at center of international treaty dispute<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A special global trade panel is weighing a precedent-setting proposition: Did Davis break international law by banning MTBE after accepting legal campaign donations from a company pushing an alternate gasoline additive?<br \/>\nThat is the argument being made by Methanex, a Canadian company that produces a key ingredient in MTBE. Methanex contends that Davis violated global trade rules by banning MTBE after holding a secret meeting with Archer Daniels Midland executives and collecting $200,000 from officials with the company that produces ethanol, a clean air alternative to MTBE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From what I have been told, the environmental (leaching) issues with MTBE are real. Why does this leave me with the feeling that it didn&#8217;t matter until there was a contributor for whom it was an issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Mercury News: Davis at center of international treaty dispute: A special global trade panel is weighing a precedent-setting proposition: Did Davis break international law by banning MTBE after accepting legal campaign donations from a company pushing an alternate gasoline additive? That is the argument being made by Methanex, a Canadian company that produces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}