frightening.
These are different figures to ones you used elsewhere. The actual maximum in most of the USA is 0.05% Sulphur by weight IIRC which is indeed 500ppm. Ultra low sulphur fuel, which is the ONLY road diesel available in the UK has 10ppm on average From 2005 zero sulphur diesel fuel will be available. Australia has fuel with a maximum of 50ppm
The UK and most of Western Europe is now using ultra low sulphur fuel, having used low sulphur fuel for a number of years. The USA will not have ULS fuel generally available until 2006 at the earliest
US and Canadian fuel does vary markedly in sulphur content from quite low in California to very high from some Exxon refineries in the North. Paradoxically it will be these high sulphur refineries which will be first with low sulphur fuel and updating these is now at a fairly advanced stage.
Most of the biggest countries in the EU, like France and
No one uses this level of fuel contamination in Western Europe AFAIK. It has only been available for off highway equipment for the best part of a decade in the UK.
What is it with you and facts? Are you so insecure that you have to be bigger and better at everything? It is rather childish to claim that our diesel is as dirty as yours when it is plainly not. Again I have to ask why you appear to be an apologist for your oil industry? Are you employed by them as a propagandist?
Yes indeed. The latest ones from certain manufacturers are about at the same level. Older diesels produce more particulates of a greater size. There is nothing to hide. Do you think I would deny that older generation diesels and some in current production produce more soot? I am not an apologist for anything or anyone LOL.
Not compared with latest direct injection petrol engines they don't.
Benzene in diesel is at a trace level at most. Benzene in petrol is also on the decline but is certainly still a fairly major constituent of the fuel and needs some trick vacuum nozzles to prevent it poisoning the driver filling the tank LOL.
No, there are
So methane is not toxic? Is MTBE biodegradable? No. Is it an aid to leaching? Yes. Is it confirmed as a major polluter which is being cleared up at the cost of billions? Yes.
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Slight error there. Only of spelling accuracy though, not of fact.
Short of land and food in the USA are you? ROTFLOL.
Another set of fatuous and plain silly statements. Not one of the questions answered though.
Fifties
metal,
It was well known decades before it was phased out. It was also known for decades that it was not needed in the fuel. It was only forced out by legislation which also phased in the catalytic converter.
Do you mean 'revisionism'? I had to point that out in view of you being such a stickler and all that LOL
Again your defence of what is known to be facts is amazing. You must be employed in a PR role, either directly or indirectly by the oil industry. Trying to discredit information is a basic tactic. Let me tell you that your attempts are pathetically amateurish.
I am doing quite well it seems. Well enough to get you to make quite absurd assertions and trying to deflect the argument at every turn.
"yours",
Philip will confirm that it is *your* facts[LOL] which are not facts at all. What does that make them?
Huw