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Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: BOULDER Colorado
Posts: 39,412
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[QUOTE=DAEpperson;6384199]Exactly. The steel production stuff went to china - the fabrication is still done in Fontana. Pollution rules terminated steel production in So Cal.
Random - steel $$ helped buy this for my bro in 1970.
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Actually the costs of upgrades and the associated pollution control devices made it cost prohibitive. The old mills were granfathered with the old process.
They could have purchased pollution credits but found it cheaper to buy foreign steel.
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1983/3.6, backdate to long hood
2012 ML350 3.0 Turbo Diesel
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