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March 7, 2000, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 14; Column
5; National Desk
LENGTH: 147 words
HEADLINE: BP Amoco to Cut Sulfur
Levels in Gasoline
BYLINE: By
The New York Times
DATELINE: DETROIT, March 6
BODY:
BP Amoco, the world's second-largest oil
company, announced today that it planned to reduce sharply by the end of 2002
the level of sulfur contamination in virtually all of the
premium gasoline that it sells in the United States.
The Ford Motor Company said the step would cut air pollution by up to
half for cars burning the fuel and said models needing premium
gasoline would receive a tankful of the new fuel before leaving
the assembly plant. President Clinton announced new rules in December to require
oil companies to reduce sulfur in all types of
gasoline from 2004 to 2006. Most oil companies strongly opposed
the rules during the drafting process, contending that they raised
gasoline prices by six cents a gallon. But BP Amoco did not
fight the regulations, and has been trying to market itself as
more environmentally responsible than other oil companies.
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