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Originally Posted by rgx
It doesn't work like that anymore, at least not over here. Instead there is an air pump sucking in air near the top of the nozzle. The fumes are then brought back to the gas container. Some fumes can certainly escape, but most is captured. The old gas pumps without this kind of recirculation are banned.
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If you're talking about the kind with the big rubber sleeve over the nozzle that's supposed to fit tight against the filler neck on the car, they're certainly not common in Virginia. In fact, I can't think of the last time I saw one here. The vast majority of stations have the old fashioned kind with a bare steel nozzle. I cringe at all the fumes that are escaping to the air every time I fill up. Not to mention the dopes who stand there and smoke while filling up their pickem up trucks (with the engine running).
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