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Re: arvitar post# 164799

Saturday, 02/11/2012 6:56:55 PM

Saturday, February 11, 2012 6:56:55 PM

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Been enjoying the posting activity on this board.

In answer to the #6 Fuel Oil argument, the sulfur content seems to be ABSOLUTELY the focus of the EPA.

From the DoE publication April 2011

7. Mandates for low-sulfur heating oil in the Northeast During 2010, Connecticut [40], Maine [41], New Jersey [42], and New York (43) passed legislation to reduce the maximum allowable sulfur content of heating oil sold in their markets. Pennsylvania proposed a similar law, but it was not approved.
Connecticut and Maine will begin regulating maximum sulfur content by mid-2011, with Connecticut reducing the maximum to 50 parts per million (ppm) and Maine reducing the maximum to 15 ppm. The Connecticut law includes a second reduction to 15 ppm in 2014. Connecticut and Maine also put in place requirements for 2-percent biodiesel content in heating oil, starting in mid-2011. The New Jersey legislation reduces the maximum sulfur content to 500 ppm in 2014 and includes a second reduction to 15 ppm in 2016. New York reduced the maximum sulfur content to 15 ppm starting in 2012. The new laws in each of the four States are included in AEO2011.

On February 1, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy also announced plans to convert the inventory of almost 2 million barrels in the Northeast Heating Oil Reserve to cleaner burning ultra-low-sulfur distillate. The first phase of this transition was the sale of the 2 million barrels of heating oil in February 2011. The receipts from those sales will be used to purchase ultra-low-sulfur heating oil to refill the reserve before the 2011-2012 heating oil season begins.


http://www.easterncoalcouncil.net/PDF_Files/ANNUAL_ENERGY_OUTLOOK_20110383(2011).pdf

So, New York has already reduced the sulfur content of their #6 oil through legislation effective now in 2012. Since they have already passed that legislation, I suggest the articles continually posted concerning NYC and #6 fuel oil are outdated and rhetorical.

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