Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:14:42 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: New EPA rules for gasoline
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New tests in AZ, also. If you fail and spend the bucks you'll get a sticker
for two years. Catch is, your vehicle can only fail once. They won't
replate it if you can't pass the next test. This also goes for the poor
slob who unknowingly buys a vehicle with one strike against it already!
Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: D Welch <jtdjtd@TIAC.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: New EPA rules for gasoline
> In Mass we have a new, expensive and more stringent emmisions test. As
> my 92 Nissan Pathfinder ( have to pull a horse trailer so no cheap
> shots) hardly passes now, I asked what would happen if I flunked, and he
> said if I spend $500 on trying to make it pass and it still flunks, then
> I get the sticker anyway. Love it.
> Daisy
>
> Alan Bosch wrote:
> >
> > 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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