At 3:36 AM -0700 7/22/01, Todd Last wrote:
>Well said. As a fellow Californian, I concur with your sentiments.
>You forgot to mention our wonderful bureaucrats who, using junk
>science as their basis,  mandated MTBE in our gasoline - a known
>carcinogen that is now showing up in the groundwater.
>
>as they say...
>
>there is nothing common about common sense.
>

        However, after CARB came to its senses regarding MTBE and its
        removal as an fuel oxygenator, the EPA refused to allow
        California to proceed to meet the California emission standards
        WITHOUT oxygenated gasoline, REQUIRING California to switch to
        ethanol blended gasoline. A bit weird, when you consider that
        California's standards are more stringent that the Federal ones.

        Politics in action at the national level...

        BTW, the 2002 Nissan Sentra CA (as in CAlifornia) qualifies as
        as Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle meeting the 2004 standard
        and, according to its PR, produces LESS pollution on a 10 mile
        daily commute than an older vehicle sitting unused in a parking
        spot...