Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:10:09 -0500
Reply-To: "Wagner, James W., , SAF/AQPS" <WagnerJW@PENTAGON.AF.MIL>
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From: "Wagner, James W., , SAF/AQPS" <WagnerJW@PENTAGON.AF.MIL>
Subject: Re: New EPA rules for gasoline
My understanding was that the changes will amount to taking 54 million
vehicles off the road. The restrictions are to reduce certain pollutants to
a fifth of what they are now per vehicle, so the effect will be the same as
removing vehicles from the road.
James Wagner
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Alan Bosch
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 10:04 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: New EPA rules for gasoline
>
>
> You may have heard by now the Pres. Clinton has signed in to
> law a bill that
> will tighten the pollution laws for cars, light trucks, &
> SUV's. Included in
> the law is a mandate to Big Oil that allowable sulphur levels
> in gasoline must
> fall from 300ppm presently to 30ppm somewhere around 2006.
>
> Now, I'm not an expert on this law. Don't know the details,
> etc., but I have
> heard the following two points and it has me concerned:
>
> 1) A spokesperson for some anti-pollution group stated that
> this is "tremendous
> legislation...it will take 54 million vehicles off American
> roads almost
> overnight when fully enacted..." Huh? Does this mean that
> any vehicle over X
> years old can not be driven? Isn't there some kind of
> grandfather clause?
>
> 2) The auto industry and the oil refining industry are not
> fightin this tough
> new law as they previously have other pollution and safety
> legislation. If 54
> million vehicles are made obsolete over night, I wouldn't
> fight it either, for
> one simple reason - $$$$$ - and a lot of them.
>
> (Here's the required Vanagon content)
>
> Is the lower sulphur levels is the next generation of
> gasoline going to do
> terrible things to our WBX engines? I seem to recall that
> there was a lowering
> of sulphur levels in Diesel fuel some years ago. It
> supposedly played hell on
> VW, Volvo, MB, and other automotive Diesel engines because
> the sulphur was
> acting as a fuel system lubricant (?) and the lack thereof
> caused injector and
> injector pump failure (at least that's how I remember it).
>
> Alan Bosch
> & Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
> Rochester, NY
>
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