Date:         Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:11:02 -0700
Reply-To:     Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: EPA and Vanagon Emissions
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <038301cd5547$e7d1d5a0$b77580e0$@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed

http://www.lohud.com/viewart/20120628/NEWS05/120628001/Federal-court-upholds-EPA-s-global-warming-rules?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|News|s

 >>WASHINGTON ­ A federal appeals court on 
Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed 
at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, 
handing down perhaps the most significant 
decision on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court 
ruling that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants. <<

Rob


At  6/28/2012 09:05 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Link please, I can't find anything on this.  Anyway, in Seattle vehicles
>over 25 years old are exempt.  Are you saying EPA is going to change that?
>I always had to take my '84 to a test site that had a guy in a van next door
>who guaranteed passing. Every two years I'd go through and fail on HC, and
>he'd put it on his Sun tester, usually doing nothing more than maxing out
>the idle, and then he drove it through and it passed.  Paid him $35 and he'd
>crank the idle back down.  Hmmm, I wonder how much he paid the tester.
>
>Stuart
>'85 Westy--now exempt, and in three years I can get a free collector vehicle
>plate (or nearly free, one time $45 fee)!!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>JRodgers
>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:10 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: EPA and Vanagon Emissions
>
>Did anyone note the announcement on Tuesday that the EPA won it's last case
>which will now allow them to absolutely dictate what happens with our
>beloved Vanagons - by way of emission control? It's gonna be interesting
>times ahead.
>
>John
>
>
>-----
>No virus found in this message.
>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>Version: 2012.0.2180 / Virus Database: 2437/5098 - Release Date: 06/28/12

Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!

Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com

The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.

Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.