Here are the facts.....
Phoenix is one of the places that thinks following CARB and Cal EPA Bureaucrats is something to look wise at doing, and do their own wise thinking on cleaner air. As far as the California refineries not having the capacity - that is complete BS and is exactly what they want you to THINK is going on... . they only make a small bit of CRG - (California Reformulated Gasoline - that is the crap that CalEPA/CARB certifiable idiots created thinking it lowers emissions and is required to keep life) Yet at the same time, these refineries make millions of gallons a day of plain FRG (Federal Reformulated Gasoline) and ship it out of the state. They deliberately make a small amount of the CRG to keep the price high. They have a state-sponsored monopoly with gasoline in CA. No one else is stupid enough to require the use of CRG. This adds up to over FOUR BILLION DOLLARS each year that is LEAVING the state economy and heading right into the pockets of the worldwide oil company stockholders.
The diesel fuel has to have a low (<500ppm I believe) sulfur content, and this is a costly procedure to carry out. In Jan 2006, Ultra Low (<10ppm) is slotted on the books. When these bureaucrats in CalEPA decided to cut sulfur - they REFUSED to listen to any of the scientists telling them that it would ruin the lubricity of the fuel and ruin diesel injection pumps. They also REFUSED to even TEST the fuel - they just slapped the regulation on the books and forced everyone to use it trying to look smart. After enough engine injection pumps (you all here know how much they cost) were destroyed in short order, they put a small amount of lubricity in the fuel, but it is still very low, and varies a lot.
These same bungling bureaucrats, along with CARB, decided to also use MTBE to lower emissions - but MTBE is a MAJOR pollutant and actually did FAR more harm to the environment than good. Their tests for that were complete fraud and way off-track to reality uses of the fuel. These so-called environmentalists FAILED to realize that if you decrease the energy content of the fuel, more of it would be burned for the same work - DUH! Even a kid can figure that out. And so not only was more gas being burned, putting out more pollution, but all of that extra gas also had MTBE in it - which caused all of its problems in the first place - to be put into the environment. MTBE is a MAJOR POLLUTANT, not just a little environmentally unfriendly! And these so-called environmentalist (really ecofrauds) forced it. These are the same ones who think all nuclear power is evil, and that all of mankind is responsible for this global warming, yet THEY ARE THE ONES that are forcing the world to burn COAL, the major player in this global warming that they are all screaming about! These are the same ones (along with their buddy-buddys known as the Sierra Club and Earth First, etc) who are forcing the forests in California to be burned - thinking it is ``Natures Way" of cleaning the forests of what is really polluted with their earlier ``no fires allowed" ideas. They force all the trees to be burned, they refuse to allow any management such as clearing the overgrown debris on the forest floor caused by never burning, and thinning, all of which causes a FIRE STORM, not just a fire, that burns EVERYTHING, instead of just the small low branches. Then, when everything is burned (and they are all happy at it) they love to see all the grass come back, thinking it is renewing itself. But they FAILED (yet again) to realize that all the BIG TREES are gone, so there are no protection or seed crop, and the land is taken over by shrubs which prevent trees from growing. Remember - they call themselves the saviors of the earth. These guys are complete certifiable idiots and ``need recycled. " This is why they are referred to as the Environmental Pollution Agency, as they do more polluting than protecting. They are all on the public payroll - taking the tax payers hard earned income, while they sit in their comfortable rocker chairs in Sacramento and come up with all of their BLACK ideas.
And, as far as contacting the state Attorney Gen - forget that- that idiot likes to pretend that he knows nothing that is going on - HE IS THE ONE THAT AUTHORIZED AND WENT WITH all of the above mentioned BS - so he knows exactly what is going on.
see this for more on the gasoline FRAUD:
http://mebonty.monobasin.net/GasFraud.html
That article, and many more, can be found here:
http://www.kgoam810.com/djadditionalinformation.asp?djid=3552