fuel quality standards (was: scirocco & aztec)

[scirocco at prexar.com (John C. Worden)]

Yes, but I think what he is saying is that if we all ran the same gas it
might not be so.  You know the more you make the cheaper they get.
As long as it's not the MTBE crap we get up here.  Now people are finding
there wells and whatnot contaminated with that additive and the state has
talked about doing away with it, a couple/few years ago, but surprise, we
still have that crap.

John

At 07:11 AM 5/25/04, ATS - Patrick Bureau wrote:

>Not missing anything, the gas (for example) that is being produced for
>California (for smog reasons) actually COSTS more to refine than the rest of
>the gas.
>
>
>ATS - Patrick Bureau - Canuck in Texas
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>Subject: fuel quality standards (was: scirocco & aztec)
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>  >The states already has the TDI - or at least most of them do, anyways.
>  >There are lots of other issues with North American fuel besides its
>  >(still too high although dramatically reduced, sulphur content.)
>  >Cetane value, for one, is a minimum of 50 in Europe - however it's
>  >only a minimum of 35 in North America.  Although we did get the 1.9 PD
>  >(pumpe deuse) TDI, with its increased hp, torque and efficiency this
>  >past year, and the 2.0 TDI is
>  >supposedly in the Passat for 2005, VW must detune their diesel
>  >powerplants to run propoerly on our crappy fuel.
>
>    this, and the current price of fuel, got me thinking. i hear all the
>time that gas prices are so high is because they have to formulate it
>for different regions. i understand that california had tougher
>emissions standards than, say, north dakota, but my question is why not
>make one formula of gas that meets the toughest emissions standards and
>sell that everywhere. seems to me, then, that more cars would be burning
>cleaner fuel and that gas prices would drop. i'm surely missing
>something somewhere, but until i get more info, seems to me that this
>would be the way to go.
>
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