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1. Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: Patrick Bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:44:09 -0700
Well today was the big day.I went over to my friends house and we colortuned the B found out the EGR valve wasn't working and put on an extra one he had laying around.After calling the local smog guy
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01472.html (7,845 bytes)

2. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: Jethogger@aol.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:10:56 EDT
Hello Pat. Have you notice that there is alot of late model british cars for sale. The price to make your car smog test passable. Then will it pass? This Smog testing is driving the price down on lat
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01473.html (7,612 bytes)

3. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: Patrick Bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:43:46 -0700
Yep the RBB MGs are dropping in value in Calif due to the hardship of getting them smogged( as I'm finding out)On the other hand pre'74 cars of all types are going up in value you see ads in the pape
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01483.html (8,540 bytes)

4. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: neil.cairns@virgin.net
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:08:43 -0700
WHAT!!!! Petrol at only 49p a gallon!!!! ( £1 = $1.60) No wonder the States can run such huge cars!! In the UK we pay the equivalent of £3 a gallon, ( unleaded,) which equates to $4.80........though
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01488.html (8,194 bytes)

5. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: "Harlan Jillson" <hjillson@argolink.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 05:48:41 -0500
Most of us in the States don't have it quite as good as John does in Georgia. Currently regular unleaded is running $1.02 to $1.10 in the Houston Tx. area, with some discount stations around $0.98.
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01490.html (8,996 bytes)

6. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: neil.cairns@virgin.net
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:49:46 -0700
The costs of running MG's in the USA seems high on spares, the prices I have seen in these pages often astounds me, ( once converted to £sd.) ( That will date me........) Whilst petrol seems fantas
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01493.html (10,054 bytes)

7. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: ccrobins <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:05:50 -0500
John, you sure know how to hurt a guy, don'tcha? ;^) SNIP And regular gas is only $.79 a gallon.
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01495.html (7,710 bytes)

8. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: Carol <car@intersatx.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:22:55 -0500
In Alaska it's against state law to sell that regurgitated gasoline. It was making people sick, and the governor signed a bill into law that prohibits the sale of the stuff. He nor the legislature re
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01498.html (8,699 bytes)

9. RE: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: "Nick Coleman" <coleman@sd.aonix.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:26:11 -0700
And $4.50 of that is tax. Maybe it's time for a tea party ;-} Nick 73B (1st Generation American who grew up in Liverpool, UK)
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01501.html (8,425 bytes)

10. RE: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: PHILIPPE TUSLER <TUSLER@mp050.mv.unisys.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (22:56 UT)
Well, I'm not an extremist, but I predict a lot of protest, civil disobedience, and even rioting as those that can least afford to pay large repairs, much less lose their vehicles and their livelihoo
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01516.html (9,394 bytes)

11. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:39:21 EDT
just to put my tuppence worth in the pot, I filled up with 93 octane yesterday and paid the princly sum of $.98 per for the stuff. One thing to remember, the actual cost of gasoline is pretty much t
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01529.html (10,820 bytes)

12. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: ccrobins <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:43:14 -0500
Hi Rick, Do you really need 93 octane gas? I run my B on 87 octane regular unleaded. Chas.
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01535.html (11,407 bytes)

13. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: "Christopher G. Moog" <cgmoog@ibm.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 02:54:17 -0400
Very true. Just want to add that in areas with very high gasoline taxes (everywhere but the USA) the cost of the raw fuel is higher than in areas with low taxes. The reason is simple economics. If th
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01542.html (8,826 bytes)

14. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: neil.cairns@virgin.net
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:53:33 -0700
snip-snip-snip We know only too well over here what Rick says.......how else does one support so many on the Social Services. Those of us who pay our taxes are fools really, its time for a revolt, fo
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01543.html (10,573 bytes)

15. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:19:54 EDT
Yours is not the only state to enact retroactive legislation. CT did it a few years ago. We came up against it with the 72 GT, when we learned to our dismay that the allowable emissions had been red
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01548.html (10,107 bytes)

16. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: Becky Mahoney <bmahoney@home.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 06:48:33 -0500
Don't even get me started on the taxes issue. I went thru an audit and am now paying over $5,000 in taxes that I DON'T OWE!!! The reason for this is that they put you in the situation where it will c
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01551.html (9,676 bytes)

17. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: BM <bill@wjmx.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:10:28 +0100
98 cents per gal !!! Try 3.00 UK (almost 6 dollars !!!!!!) which works out a little less 'cause a US gal is smaller than a UK gal. Enjoy it while you can. Regards. Bill. In message <19980728.220713.
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01563.html (11,327 bytes)

18. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:57:41 EDT
Good Idea. But let's increase the frequency to one a month at the least. I'm afraid that by getting only one a year, there is suffecient time for another one to come along as his/her replacement. We
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01581.html (8,604 bytes)

19. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:57:41 EDT
Good point, Which, if you think about it, is an indictment of high taxes negative effect on economic effeciencies. Rick Morrison 72 MGBGT 74 Midget On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 02:54:17 -0400 "Christopher G.
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01582.html (8,605 bytes)

20. Re: Smog Woes (part one) (score: 1)
Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:57:41 EDT
Unfortunatly yes, My engine is an 18GF High compression engine, complements of the PO who lunched the original 18V engine (for some reason MG dont run very good with a rod sticking through the block!
/html/mgs/1998-07/msg01583.html (11,986 bytes)


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