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To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (2224)	11/6/1998 7:58:00 PM
From: LIQPLMBER	Respond to of 3383

HEY URANIS, HEARD YOUR LEAVING TOWN SOON Better take all your assets with you , all 250.00 dollars, Are you watching all the big buys lately, your really turning out to be the laughing stock of this SI, no punn intended. Engineering School, You must of graduated the IDIOT of your class, cause you aint no engineer my boy Im only keeping that septic tank job open for a short while longer, you should think about it Auric, I can pay you 300 a week and all you can eat, thats pretty good for an educated man like you. And yes, Count can still ride shotgun with you. The only qualifications are a clean license and dont chew your finger nails. Have a nice trip, You do need a vacation !!!! DRANO

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (2224)	11/6/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: LIQPLMBER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3383

ANOTHER REASON TO BE IN FOR THE LONG AURIC YOULL GET IT SOMEDAY AURIC SEEMS LIKE THE OX-2 IS THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM US. car makers mull response to new Calif. standards By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES, Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. car makers, faced with tough new California emissions limits for their most profitable products -- light trucks and sport utility vehicles -- said Friday they had not decided whether to challenge the rules. But environmentalists hailed the new standards and vowed to push for more aggressive nationwide emissions limits. California's Air Resources Board voted Thursday to tighten and extend through 2010 the state's current low-emission vehicle regulations, which run from 1994 through 2003. The board also decided to apply the passenger car standards to light trucks, minivans and sport utility vehicles, which are currently regulated under less stringent truck standards. "As far as any challenge, our members have not had a chance yet to review the package," a spokeswoman for Californians for Realistic Vehicle Standards, a Detroit-led coalition of opponents to the California plan, said Friday. Kelly Brown, Ford Motor Co.'s director of vehicle environmental engineering, said in a statement, "The standards will require new inventions that could result in higher prices and almost certainly will limit the functional capability of some vehicles." The new standards go into effect for new cars sold, starting in 2004, and apply to all vehicles lighter than 8,500 pounds. "Detroit is feeling a little bit like roadkill right now," Roland Wong, transportation director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said Friday. "They overreached in California, but the air board had the intelligence to see through the lies." When the more aggressive standards are fully implemented in 2010, the air board estimated that smog-forming emissions in the Los Angeles area will be reduced by 57 tons per day, while the statewide reduction was put at 155 tons a day. The auto manufacturers had proposed an alternative plan for California, which exempted the heaviest vehicles from the most restrictive requirements. But the air board turned down that request and also removed from the package a less stringent emission standard that would have made it easier for automakers to sell diesel cars, pickups and sport utilities. "Diesel is the wrong way to go. This a big signal for auto manufacturers to invest in new technologies like electric batteries, hybrids and fuel cells," Wong said. Environmental groups said the next battleground in the air quality fight will be at the federal level, where the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is readying plans for tighter nationwide vehicle tailpipe-emissions standards. "Dirty air remains a national problem, and there's no reason we should have dirtier cars and sport utilities in the rest of the country," Frank O'Donnell, executive director of Clean Air Trust, said. 19:38 11-06-98 Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.