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- From: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Subject: IBD says EPA OXY-fuel program sucks.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182645.13669@infonode.ingr.com>
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- Reply-To: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Organization: Dazix, An Intergraph Company
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:26:45 GMT
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- Here are some exerts from November 17, 1992 Investors' Business Daily
- re: EPA's OXY-Fuels program:
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- All the following are quotes unless otherwise indicated by ().
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- The EPA acknowledges that many cars using oxy-fuels will suffer
- reduced mileage. That's because there is a smaller amount of
- combustible gasoline in each gallon of fuel blended with oxygenates.
- Oil industry calculations estimate an average mileage drop of 3% to 4%
- while the Department of Energy estimates a 2.5%
- decline and the EPA a drop of 1%.
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- DOE estimates gasoline prices will go up three to five cents a gallon,
- but oil company officials foresee a jump of nearly 10 cents a gallon ...
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- Arizona ... oxygenates ... increased costs to consumers by
- $29 - $37 million annually. ... rest of the nation ... a potential
- annual cost of mare than $2 billion. (In the 37 cities effected.)
-
- Thus, oxygenated additives can at best reduce the carbon monoxide
- emissions of pre-1983 cars in need of a tuneup and post-1983 cars with
- broken sensors. Ironically, it is the cars with the oxygen sensors
- that will suffer the greatest loss in mileage.
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- ... Denver ... only one of 300 vehicles made in 1988 and 1989 put out
- a significantly high level of emissions.
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- That 300th car is eligible ... required warranties ... for free repair ...
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- Even among cars built before ... 1980 ... testing found that 81% ran
- cleanly. The bottom line was that only 9% could have benefited from
- oxygenated fuels.
- (ie. only 9% of pre-1980 cars are clunkers, smokers,
- or whatever you want to call them )
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- The same data used to justify oxy-fuels shows that fixing 10% of a fleet
- gives you more improvement than forcing the whole fleet to use oxy-fuels.
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