Clean air vs. market shakeout: how Stage II will change St. Louis. (gasoline vapor recovery)

National Petroleum News, November, 1987 by Shingle, Howard

Clean Air vs. Market Shakeout: How Stage II Will Change St. Louis

Just because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn't mandating Stage II vapor recovery as a national policy doesn't mean marketers won't be stuck with it anyway. Ask any jobber in St. Louis.

There may have been a sigh of relief when the EPA proposed onboard canisters and reduced gasoline volatility as the best way to combat excessive hydrocarbon emissions [NPN--Sept. '87, p30], but the sigh may be cut short.

The greater St. Louis metropolitan area is the current hot spot for Stage II. Despite attempts by the Missouri Oil Jobbers Assn. to delay Stage II and to create a state tax break for it, jobbers in that city still face an end-of-the-year deadline for installing...

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