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Old 12-03-2008, 04:31 AM   #67 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by theunchosen View Post
The standards are challenges. . .but for gas engines they are entirely misguided.

to refine gasoline it costs .5 grams SOx and .3 grams NOx which my car does not produce. for emissions its better for the world for my car to drop a very tiny amount of HC
It's also better for your car to drop NOx since refinery emissions per mile are lower than current T2B5 emissions. SOx is all on the refinery side regardless of how clean a manufacturer makes your three way cat since the cat doesn't deal w/ SOx AFAIK.
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