Charcoal Canister Delete?

Mark Rosenkrantz speedracer.mark at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 20:32:40 PDT 2012


But are the cars actually different in "pzev" configuration?

Mark Rosenkrantz
Typos sent from my iPad

On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:50 PM, TWFAUST at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Double  checking on this, currently it is actually not legal to sell a PZEV 
> in most  states. In fact it is only legal for sale in nine states and only 
> really sold  in five. This is because the EPA does not recognize PZEV as 
> existing, it's is  a California only thing that was adopted by four other 
> states and the EPA  allows sale by dealers that are within a certain distance of 
> the border of  those states.
> 
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> 
> I have had a lot of dealings with the EPA, all of them dismal. For what it  
> is worth the establishing legislation permits states to impose standards 
> more  restrictive than EPA, but not less so.
> 
> The one good thing about state standards, at least generally, if you are  
> ordered to make "repairs" failure results in a fine. Generally, the fines are 
> far less than the cost of repairs over most peoples expected lifetimes. So 
> they  just add on the fines to part of the yearly cost of doing business. 
> For example,  a guy I know owns a scrap yard. He was recently hit with a 
> clean up order that  would have set him back about $150,000, he would have to 
> mortgage his house to  pay it. He is 58 and makes about $50,000 a year, the 
> fine is $2,300 a year.  He is just going to pay the fines.
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