Date:    Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:10:09 -0500
From:    "Wagner, James W., , SAF/AQPS" <WagnerJW@PENTAGON.AF.MIL>
Subject: Re: New EPA rules for gasoline

My understanding was that the changes will amount to taking 54 million
vehicles off the road.  The restrictions are to reduce certain
pollutants to
a fifth of what they are now per vehicle, so the effect will be the same
as removing vehicles from the road.
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How do you figure that? If the vehicles were removed from the road,
roads would become less congested. But that won't happen, because there
will be the SAME (if not more) vehicles on the road because anyone who
gets rid of a vehicle will replace it with another.
It may reduce pollution a little, but thats all.
Does this legislation affect diesels? If not, trucks and buses will
continue to spew out filth as they do now.