Ah yes, the EPA.....one of modern America's new groups of Brown Shirts.....
Ray
2:33 PM 11/8/97 -0600, Carol wrote:
>When we were in Alaska, we learned that the governor of Alaska had actually
>outlawed this reformulated gasoline in the entire state, and had signed a
>bill to that effect.
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>I like his style! People were getting sick from the fumes. He cared about
>his people more than he did about EPA bureaucrats' speculations.
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>Works for me!!
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>Carol
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>[BTW San Antonio is still "in compliance". My guess: they'll move the
>sensors into the middle of some unusually busy intersection to force
>failure. And YES that's exactly what happened in Missoula, Montana -- a
>town of what... 35,000 or so? Ridiculous!! ]
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>At 12:59 AM 11/7/97 -0500, Nory wrote:
>> "...todays gas on old cars"
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>>I don't know about anybody else, but when we briefly had the
>>reformulated gas here my Midget ran really crappy. No amount of carb
>>adjustments would help. I just had to tolerate it for a few months
>>until they went back to the old gas.
>>
>>Anyway, my theory is that the petrol companies want to sell the ref. gas
>>because it's cheaper (it actually contains less gasoline
>>percentage-wise), but if enough cars run lousy on it, then the
>>complaints would lead to a return to the old gas (like it did here).
>>The newer cars can handle that gas without much problem, but the older
>>ones just won't run right.
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>>Another reason may be that they were counting on being able to buy and
>>crush our old "clunkers" (when they won't pass smog) so they could get
>>pollution "credits." These allow the company to emit more pollution
>>from their refinery, because they "saved" society from those excessively
>>polluting cars.
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>>-NORY
>>Don't assume that because you have found one problem, you have found the
>>ONLY problem.
>>
>> '74 Midget & '71 parts car
>> '94 Ford Ranger
>> '86 Ford Escort
>> '89 Ford Probe
>> '96 North American Shepherd
>> 2 cats (handiest shop tools around)
>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9101
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