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A new study of some brand-new car engines — as mandated by California law, and in conjunction with the low sulfur gasoline requirements that California also requires — indicates that the engines are nearly pollution-free<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, this seems like a case where technology mandates by the government, despite fears that they would bankrupt companies (and citizens) and never be practically met, were indeed attainable when push came to shove. Imagine that.<\/p>\n

(via Instapundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

I know the new sulfur requirements are on the boards nationwide — my company will likely be involved in some of the refinery retrofitting needed. When the new cars will start showing up outside of California is not known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study of some brand-new car engines — as mandated by California law, and in conjunction with the low sulfur gasoline requirements that California also requires — indicates that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5967,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/15\/distortion.html","url_meta":{"origin":2906,"position":0},"title":"Distortion","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jun-04 2:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If wishes were fishes ... 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