It's a peeve of mine. One of those inconvenient truths of history that people don't like to talk about or don't know about. We (the US government) started poisoning alcohol WITHOUT TELLING PEOPLE. The fact that the practice continues is ridiculous.
My father worked for Saudi petrochemical company SABIC in the 80s. Some bright spark decided to go to the ethanol factory and get some high purity hooch from a tap and make an end run around Saudi alcohol restrictions. Unfortunately he made a wrong turn and went to the methanol factory instead…