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Posted by Mark - IN. on January 27, 2005 at 17:00:28 from (64.12.117.7):
In Reply to: O/T New EPA standards is a joke posted by john in la on January 27, 2005 at 10:54:45:
Not sure that you can blame the oil companies initially, but maybe and probably are making off of it now. Just posted about this elsewhere. Some years back, the government began making petrolium companies "re-formulate" gasoline sold in areas where populations exceeded ??? people. Typically larger areas and collar counties. This "re-formulated" gas costs quite a bit more to make, so is more expensive to purchase, and it wreaks havoc on small engines like lawn mowers. It gums up the carburators like crazy. In theory, gallon for gallon, it burns cleaner, but it's so impotent that you have to burn more of it to get the same power, and again, tears up those little engines. I know from experience. Thing is, now the manufacturers are making it across the board, and not just for higher densely populated areas. Amoco has been doing it for years with their "Gold", which makes the Hog run like crap, so used Shell's premium. But now Shell re-formulated their premium, and call it V-something or other, and the Hog can't swallow that crap either. Maybe is a federal mandate. Sooo, how are polluting less if now have to burn more of it, to do the same thing? And, you might think that the manufacturers are making more money for a more expensive product, and maybe they are, but that garbage also costs more to produce. Thank Al Gore and his Earth Out Of Balance friends for that one, and toilets that don't flush, unless you flush them 150 times when only used to have to flush once. Smaller washing machines that hold less, so have to do more loads, and end up using more water. Yep, thank Uncle Albert and his unbalanced tree hugger friends.
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