More EPA slight of hand.

[oil pan 4]

7 cents a gallon less sounds good to me.

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Let's come up with another combination of words abbreviated into E.P.A., but they must be postable

If you smell anything it's becasue I'm thinking about it.

regards
Mech

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by jamesqf

Don't know about Arizona, but hereabouts, if you look you'll find that much of the dust comes off of areas where the soil has been disturbed by human activity. If the land has a good covering of sagebrush &c, that holds the soil in place and keeps much of the wind from even reaching the surface.

Sand drifts are the remnants of ancient: (a) dried-up sea beds or (b) river alluvial discharge plains.

We're not talking about the 'dust bowl' of Oklahoma, although the end results are the same.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by Old Mechanic

Let's come up with another combination of words abbreviated into E.P.A., but they must be postable

If you smell anything it's becasue I'm thinking about it.

regards
Mech

Environmental propaganda agency

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

Sand drifts are the remnants of ancient: (a) dried-up sea beds or (b) river alluvial discharge plains.

We're not talking about the 'dust bowl' of Oklahoma, although the end results are the same.

We do have some decent sand dunes hereabouts. When the wind blows, the sand moves, but stays within a few feet of the surface. Dust from construction sites tends to billow into the air and travel for miles.

[PaleMelanesian]

Originally Posted by nemo

If the cleaner gasoline was doing its job and it's only 7 cents a gallon more at wholesale why not use it everywhere?

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...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.