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EPA Ruling Sets Stage for a Gas Pump Change

CSP Daily News -- PACIFIC, Mo. -- Motorists accustomed to filling up at gas pumps with vapor-collecting attachments on the nozzles could be in for a change. Those nozzles belong to Stage II vapor-recovery systems, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled no longer cost effectively cut air pollution. And states are increasingly allowing them to be decommissioned. EPA estimates eliminating Stage II systems will save gas stations $3,000 each year.

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tomok
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EPA Ruling Sets Stage for a Gas Pump Change, why was there a change in the first place? If the Stage II vapor recovery nozzle does not work right, get rid of it! So will there be more of a gasoline smell in the air during a fill up? Gas prices will not go down but may go up slightly to recover the cost of the modifications. It just goes to show, there's always something!
Drive vehicles with high MPG, are very safe, reliable, have a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money.
The price of fuel at the pump is too high!
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remind me why we put that stuff into so many stations in the first place? Esp. those in colder areas while FL never was required... hmmm... vaporizing gasoline in FL... not happening, right?
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DrCash: no. It's another goof up.
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Since when does the EPA or any part of the government care about whether something is cost effective?
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save them $3000 per year, but how much will it cost to retrofit the pumps?
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More crap from the EPA.
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Shutdown EPA!
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more BS
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old news
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anything to save oil company supplying, gas stations money as the price peg gal goes up up up
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They'll just absorb the lower costs and not reduce prices.
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old news
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I don't see a reduction in pump prices coming to the consumer.
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I suspect the vapor recovery systems never worked that well anyhow.
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Wonder how much it will save the drivers. Right.
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This will make for easy motorcycle fillups.
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It still won't bring prices down.
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Good!
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Ohbamass has my change...
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WHEN will we ever demand to get rid of the EPA???
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let them go then
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how much will this save us on price of gal. of gas.
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Will gas price go down because of this?
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What Next???????????????
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I guess I don't know what these are. Must not be used in the southwest.
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Defund the EPA.
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I just want the price at the pump to go down
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After they Decommissioning Stage II Vapor Recovery Piping, and replace with conventional hanging hardware.
Then they will come out with Stage III Vapor Recovery.
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What about the price at the pump?
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Way to go.
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I'm sure gas prices were raised to cover the cost of the changeover when the nozzles became mandatory now I bet It will cost us again to convert them back to standard nozzles
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There won't be any price breaks, but I always hated those nozzles.
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Who cares?
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They are unnecessary!
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Get rid of the employment prevention agency.
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A step in the wrong direction. The areas around the gas stations without these devices smell terrible.
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Oldnnews
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It was a true fairy tale.
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OK
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Good question, BMWer.
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And we will get a break on the cost of fuel because of this, NOT! But at least we are not wasting more money.
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But will this affect the price at the pump?
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Is the EPA actually backing down on one of their stupid rules? Wow!
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Ok.
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not even a drop in the bucket
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