EPA restricts sulfur in gas to cut auto emissions
By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency issued final rules Monday to slash the amount of sulfur in gasoline, which would help cut smog-causing pollution from autos and bring the rest of the country’s fuel supply in line with California’s standards.
The new rule for “Tier 3” gasoline calls for reducing the amount of sulfur in fuel by two-thirds, to 10 parts per million from 30 parts per million. Similar low-sulfur gasoline is already in use in California, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
The new gasoline would be available at the pump by January 2017.
It would prevent “up to 2000 premature deaths a year” says the EPA. Figures lie and liars figure.
As a society we are losing ours collective minds to BS.
I have been disappointed for years that STPUD didn’t go public with the findings on MTBE. The entire group of oxygenated fuels are so noneffective their results are almost unmeasurable.