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Government is either incompetent or corrupt by its very nature. Still not sure which one it is in this case.
"A new kind of gas nozzle has been implicated in the dousing of more than a dozen customers, one of whom was hospitalized.
California gas station owners are fuming about new emission-trapping pump nozzles required by the states pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, after more than a dozen customers were sprayed with gasoline.
The state fire marshal is so concerned about the malfunctioning devices that it has ordered the removal of all the latches on the nozzles despite a state law requiring them.
And that order, which was issued in August, has left service stations in an awkward, possibly dangerous and financially unpalatable situation.
No one wants to take responsibility for fixing 35,000 nozzles at thousands of stations across California. Replacing all the nozzles would cost about $10.5 million."
Lots of money wasted, consumers forced to pay higher costs, and the safety of the public compromised by government action.
Want to waste money? Have government mandate something.
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"A new kind of gas nozzle has been implicated in the dousing of more than a dozen customers, one of whom was hospitalized.
California gas station owners are fuming about new emission-trapping pump nozzles required by the states pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, after more than a dozen customers were sprayed with gasoline.
The state fire marshal is so concerned about the malfunctioning devices that it has ordered the removal of all the latches on the nozzles despite a state law requiring them.
And that order, which was issued in August, has left service stations in an awkward, possibly dangerous and financially unpalatable situation.
No one wants to take responsibility for fixing 35,000 nozzles at thousands of stations across California. Replacing all the nozzles would cost about $10.5 million."
Lots of money wasted, consumers forced to pay higher costs, and the safety of the public compromised by government action.
Want to waste money? Have government mandate something.
More...