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500 ppm diesel still readily available......

Its spelled Palladium, and the main ingredient in oxidation catcons is platinum anyway. And they haven't used beads in catalysts since 1980.

act as a catylist to convert pollutants to, uh, less

Reduction cats convert nitrogen oxides to nitrogen (N2) and free oxygen (O2). Oxidation catcons convert Carbon Monoxide and un-burned hydrocarbons to carbon dioxide and water. Oxidation catcons need free oxygen to work, and that's what air injection pumps are for. But with better fuel management systems like we have today, the free oxygen released by the reduction section of the cat is usually enough to fuel the oxidation section of the cat. Kinda neat, that.

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Steve
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Yeah, now I'm peeved about cheap "made in China" fluorescent tubes that only last 2 months :-p

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Steve

Make sure it's really the tubes and not a failing ballast.

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TBone

A guy in New Jersey got busted recently. he was running a business and fueling his diesel trucks with Home heating oil. They busted the guy for not paying fuel taxes on Diesel.

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David E. Powell

Hmmm - so when I ran out of heating oil in the middle of the night and got 10 gallons of diesel fuel at the local gas station to get us thru the night and next day, do I get an award? :)

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

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Bill Putney

Veering way off topic, but since you asked....

I would have suspected that, but its ONLY the chinese tubes in the same fixture with German tubes and its the only chinese tubes in several different fixtures. These are rather expensive aquarium lamps with special spectal characteristics, and the tube vendor (Coralife) switched production from Germany to China some time last year. Its 100% consistent- all the new Chinese tubes are failing early. I'm no longer buying Coralife lamps as a result.

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Steve

LOL. I think they got mad at him because it was over several years and for his business, and because his other job was being a State Trooper. Still, gov't messing with a little diesel/oil either way seems silly.

See if they can get someone to reccomend you for a commendation - is the diesel cleaner burning? ;)

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David E. Powell

Its HIGHWAY taxes, actually.

The same thing happens in farm country. Heaven forbid a farmer get caught with dyed (or not dyed, I forget which) non-highway-taxed "offroad" diesel that goes in his tractors in his Cummins Ram. :-(

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Steve

Kyoto deals with CO2, greenhouse gas emissions. I don't think it addresses specific vehicle emissons other than that.

It had a smog pump but definitely not a catalytic converter since they were not invented then, and unleaded gas was totally unavailable.

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RapidRonnie

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