[RC] Biltmore news??????? - Zoe Kharpertian

David LeBlanc wrote:
>
There are several issues. First people must keep their autos maintained 
so that they don't produce excessive emissions. Secondly I think a few 
different formulations would solve the issues - instead of the many we 
have today. Much of the problems in New England comes from emissions in 
Chicago. So it is a national problem.

Every time the refinery is closed down - the supply goes down.

Face it in 1946 FDR cut a deal with King Saud - that deal is what has 
been supplying our lust for gas. Our whole infrastructure is based on 
fuel consumption. Look at CA for example. Now look at Europe - little 
sprawl, a good rail system. It's time the political parties stop playing 
politics and develop a coherent energy policy which includes, nuclear 
power generation with reprocessing to recycle the fuel so we don't have 
so much waste, wind and solar for prime time power production, fuel cell 
technology, etc.

Truman
> Funny story – a mechanic friend of mine was once doing a smog check on 
> a car in LA, and when he zeroed out the machine based on the ambient 
> air, the car was emitting negative emissions. He checked it with his 
> calibration gas, and it turned out the emissions from the car were 
> cleaner than the air. The vehicle was actually cleaning the air as it 
> ran. Pretty nasty comment on what people were breathing.
>
> What we’d end up with if we did go to fewer formulations is that 
> people in areas that don’t especially need something to suppress CO 
> emissions would end up with it, likely at extra expense, but it might 
> even out if they didn’t have to clean up the refineries all the time.
>
> The up side to all this is that competing technologies are going to 
> really get an opportunity – the supply infrastructure for gasoline is 
> so entrenched that other fuels really need to be a lot cheaper to make 
> up for the difference. Plus, as prices go up, that house over an hour 
> away is going to start looking more expensive than living in town, and 
> maybe we’ll start taking a more serious look at rail. Very few people 
> will do things just because it’s the right thing, so we have to get it 
> to where it’s in their economic advantage to do the right thing. If 
> we’d have kept up the pressure on driving up mileage standards, we 
> wouldn’t use so much oil, demand would be less, and prices would go 
> down. But like I said, few people, especially the administration, will 
> do the right thing just because it’s right.
>
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> *Sent:* Sunday, May 06, 2007 9:23 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [RC] [RC] The Price of Gas
>
> It would be great to agree on one formulation of gas, but I don't 
> think that's possible. Supposedly the variations in the gas 
> formulations is because of the smog we get in the hot desert areas 
> during the times of year we have wild temperature changes, like during 
> the the winter. Cold nights with warm days traps the pollution in. The 
> changes in gas formulations is supposed to somehow help prevent that 
> from happening as much, though I'm not sure it makes much difference. 
> We just have too many people and cars is the main problem. Nobody 
> seems to be trying to drive less. People are buying houses in 
> subdivisions way outside the city because they're cheaper, then they 
> drive an hour or hour and a half each way to work! If more people 
> would live closer to work, that would help the problem. Just my humble 
> opinion based on observation.
>
>
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