We wonder who invented summer anyhow.

The group represents a who's-who of the refining industry, including oil majors ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Valero, Tesoro and Phillips 66.In case their legal challenge fails, Drevna said, the oil companies are actively pursuing "legislative" solutions to the issue in Congress.The ethanol lobby said oil companies are bluffing. "What it comes down to is we're [cutting] into their market share," said Michael Frohlich, spokesperson for Growth Energy, the ethanol group that made E15 possible by petitioning the EPA to approve its sale.Profits, more than vehicle safety or performance, are the main reason why refiners are "fighting tooth and nail" to get rid of E15, Frohlich claimed. If they wanted to, they could easily blend more ethanol into the gasoline supply, he said.

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A few days ago as I walked through my neighborhood I noticed a smell — kind of like a dead skunk having fallen into a heavily-used toilet kind of aroma.Next on my walk came the mosquito bites. Not biblical plague kind of stuff, but itchy nonetheless.When my walk ended, a friend asked me if I had been swimming. Guess my shirt was a tad wet with sweat.Summer means a lot of things to adults — baseball and, yes, the Cubs are still awful, thanks for reminding me, barbecues I can burn anything mother nature can throw at me, and yard mowing source of much of my summer sweat.But for kids summer means but one thing — no school.Getting up late. Wearing shorts all of the time. Being barefoot.They are all part of the great children award for having persevered through another year of school.Sometimes summer leaves us parent types at our wit's end.We wonder who invented summer anyhow.