Texas Orders ‘Boutique’ Fuel
The decision by Texas to require a special clean diesel fuel in the Dallas area reawakens trucking’s fear that carriers will have to buy fuel on a state-by-state basis.
The Texas Natural Resources and Conservation Commission voted April 18 to require California Air Resources Board-compliant fuel by 2002. Service stations in nine counties in the Dallas Fort-Worth area could only sell the same formula of diesel as their counterparts in California.
The possibility that states would follow California’s lead in requiring cleaner-burning diesel spurred the Environmental Policy Committee of American Trucking Associations to call for a study on the best way to establish a new nationwide diesel standard.
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Houston is next. To bring Texas into compliance with federal air standards, the state agency is expected to issue a similar rule for that metro area later in the year.
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