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Non-Tech : IMPCO Technologies (IMCO), formerly AirSensors (ARSN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (184)	2/5/2000 4:34:00 PM
From: jetcityrandy	Respond to of 298

Wow! What a surprise. I bought 100 shares of Air Sensors Inc, in 1987 for $350.00 + $34.00 commission. Ever since its 6:1 reverse split [well, even way before then], I have pretty much ignored this puppy. But for some reason (after reviewing a statement), plugged IMCO into a quote request last Friday, and boy was I amazed. Almost doubled my money, in what.... 13 years! LOL It was rather enjoyable reading the latest news from late January. I guess since I have held this one for thirteen years, I won't be selling anytime soon. Since I don't follow this industry or equity, can someone help fill me in on the status of IMCO? Sorry to be so lazy, but well, after over a decade, it is hard to get excited.

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (184)	2/9/2000 7:41:00 AM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

Semi OT Everything's Big in Texas --Including the Air Pollution They say everything's big in Texas, and not least the cars and trucks. One hulking sport-utility vehicle, the Chevrolet Suburban, is so popular in the state that it's known as the Texas Cadillac. But something else is big in Texas: an air-pollution problem so bad that by some measures Houston's air has become the smoggiest in the nation. Now the federal government has ordered Texas to clean up that mess, and it appears that doing so will require Texans to ease up on their hard-driving ways. That, in turn, has spooked the nation's auto industry. Texas is the nation's No. 1 market for some trucks that can produce profits approaching $15,000 apiece -- including the Suburban. So Detroit is deploying its lobbyists across Texas, afraid that if the Lone Star State turns too green, the auto industry will start seeing red. Dirty air in Texas is nothing new. Some of the state's sprawling cities have long violated federal limits for ozone, commonly known as smog. Now the state is refocusing its antismog strategy. If Texas doesn't submit acceptable ozone-reduction plans to the Environmental Protection Agency this year, Washington could impose rules that effectively ban most new industrial and commercial construction in the smoggiest metropolitan areas in the state. It could also cut off Texas' federal highway funds. In response, the state in recent weeks released a sweeping set of clean-air ideas, including several that would hit Texans squarely in the driver's seat. Among them: a reduction in the highway speed limits around Houston and Dallas and a tougher tailpipe-monitoring program designed to ferret out polluting clunkers and force them off the road. But those proposals are mild compared with the two that really have riled Texans. One is a 20% cut in the number of miles traveled by vehicles in the Houston area, which could mean a mandate that every car and truck there stay parked one workday per week. The other idea roiling Texans is the possible adoption of California's famously tough clean-air standards, which include a requirement that, starting in a few years, 10% of the new vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission -- essentially, electric-powered. Charles Carter, executive director of the Independent Cattlemen's Association of Texas, thinks both ideas are harebrained. His members want nothing to do with the California rules, he says, because they need full-size pickup trucks to do their work, and "there's just no place to plug an electrical outlet in the middle of a South Texas ranch." snip..... +++++++++++++++++++ Hey Texas Dudes, I know a company the makes truck CNG conversion kits and also is an OEM for GM. You can keep the Suburban and help solve your problems too. Go IMCO! Jim