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Old 05-19-2014, 02:20 PM   #16 (permalink)
PaleMelanesian
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If the cleaner gasoline was doing its job and it's only 7 cents a gallon more at wholesale why not use it everywhere?
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...because not everywhere has BAD air...and most of those places that do, it's more often due to geophysical (basin) characteristics and weather (inversions), and NOT always cars and hydrocarbon emissions!
Here's an example. Texas has 6 poor air quality locations. Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, and rural east Texas. The first 5 have vehicle emissions testing, but we don't. Our poor air quality is not from automobiles, since we don't have all that many. It's from industry, especially the antique coal power plants burning dirty coal (lignite). Fuel regulations and improvements won't fix that.
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