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Re:Tesla Faces New Jersey Challenge as Rule Change Looms by saryant on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:17PM (#7382864)
I don't know.

This is actually one area where the refining industry wants federal regulation: they would vastly prefer to deal with a single set of standards for the whole country than tailoring individual plants to 50 different standards.

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Re:Tesla Faces New Jersey Challenge as Rule Change Looms by maxerickson on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:24PM (#7382905)
There are minimum federal standards:

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/gasolinefuels/rfg/areas.htm

So the state specific requirements only really matter if they exceed the federal standards.

It's pretty likely that reformulated gasoline is effective in reducing smog (I think CO is the big target).

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Re:Tesla Faces New Jersey Challenge as Rule Change Looms by saryant on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:26PM (#7382915)
> So the state specific requirements only really matter if they exceed the federal standards.

Which is exactly the case in California, hence the higher prices.

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Re:Tesla Faces New Jersey Challenge as Rule Change Looms by maxerickson on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:24PM (#7383157)
To a large extent, I was replying to your wording. There is federal regulation. I was probably over-reading.
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