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.
I like his style! People were getting sick from the fumes. He cared about
his people more than he did about EPA bureaucrats' speculations.
Works for me!!
Carol
[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!! ]
At 12:59 AM 11/7/97 -0500, Nory wrote:
> "...todays gas on old cars"
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>-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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