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| Calif AQ Mandate Will Close Many Service Stations |
| 2009-01-30 |
| This April, a mandate from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) called the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Program (EVRP) will go into effect. The idea behind the program is to get next-generation clean nozzles and equipment installed at fuel pumps in the state in order to control emissions. Sounds like a good thing, right? The environment wins becasue ground-level ozone should be reduced and people win, too. What's the problem? These new cleaner gas stations aren't cheap, and "dozens, and potentially hundreds" of gas stations in California might close down instead to upgrade. In other words, in this case, going green means going out of business. According to the Pasadena Star-News, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has heard from 76 refueling sites (of about 4,500 total in its area) that will shut down because of the high costs of the EVRP. CARB responds by saying that gas prices will go up by about 0.68 cents a gallon I think that means less than a penny a gallon bit that is spread over all stations-- because the upgrade is something like $10k/pump, stations with lower volume sales would be hit far worse than high volume stations to cover the cost of upgrading. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #5 CHINESE MIL FORUM > POSTER OP-Ed Thread - WHY JAPAN, CHRISTIANITY, AND CALIFORNIA WILL MAKE A HUGE SMACK ON CHINA!? NOT CHINEAMERICA, BUT JAPANIFORNIA = NIPPONFORNIA [Japanusa]??? GODZILLA + SCALY/ZILLA HARD BOYZ will save Amerika, Chinia, + World from China's ONE-CHILD POLICY + CHIN-LED MOON EXPLORATIONS??? * OTOH, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > Poster Op-ed Thread-Commentary - ONE DAY ALL CHINESE WILL BE MUSLIM?/CHINA EXPERIENCING RAPID GROWTH IN NON-TRADITIONAL FAITHS, espec CHRISTIANITY??? However, ISLAM + HINDU also making popular gains iff only in subjective "experimentation"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-30 22:09 |
| #4 "California AQ" > California has AL QAEDA??? Gut Nuthin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-30 18:57 |
| #3 Usually, these are the margin contract operations. However, their disappearance means less competition to the company stores, who get that twice a day call to adjust the prices. Less competition, higher prices just in the market, let alone taxes. Remember to make a 1% difference in the environment, we the wise overlords will take 10% more of your labor as we seek ever more perfection. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-30 09:02 |
| #2 It will force many filling stations out of business. Just like it's supposed to. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-30 08:38 |
| #1 ...No doubt the usual suspects will state that losing that much business and tax revenue is somehow a good thing. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2009-01-30 05:30 |