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<br /> everyone SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A day after
<br /> whelmingly banned surcharges on autos
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<br /> i -135 ,..: �;" Francisca voters outlawed the$1 and $2 fee
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<br /> D1 were 97,730 votes for the ban, 50,065 ag
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<br /> A San Joaquin County is seeking $13 _ " ;' _ y ; R ' `�: ThATM bn is similar to ones is
<br /> F3 million in penalties from two oil com F+ '. r I.+ �'' #� Connecticut, Iowa and cities including Sar
<br /> panes for allegedly failing to clean up ' except those were imposed by politicia
<br /> V B5 pollution from underground fuel tanks Record photo by CALIXTRO ROMIAs The rnesults didn't surprise Greg Wilhelm,
<br /> 86 at several gas stations in Stockton and GAS STATION IN STOCKTON:A Unocal Stockton is named in a lawsuit because of byist for the California Bankers Associatio
<br /> Manteca. seeking a federal injunction against the fee
<br /> C1 gas station at 2703 W. March lane in a problem with underground fuel tanks, Francisco and Santa Monica 'You offer pt
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<br /> toxic or cancer-causing chemicals, such which paid $1 billion for Unocal's retail one knows how far the contamination lunch and hew are they going to vote?" N
<br /> F5 as benzene, toluene, ether and MTBE, stations in 1997. spread, said Deputy District. Attorney The industry contends that the fees are
<br /> F6 goes back to the 1980s, the district Bath companies are named in the David Irey, the county's environmental maintain tine machines and install new on
<br /> attorneys office said in a lawsuit filed lawsuit, which accuses them of violat- prosecutor. sumer Ir°Ws — and the people who voted'
<br /> Tuesday in San Joaquin County Superior ing several state laws on the repair, 'Basically, they haven't determined —doubt that.'I thunk the?ranks are basically
<br />' com• cleanup and monitoring of leaking the depth — the horizontal or vertical. thing they can to take our money frorn us,'sr
<br /> The stations, some still in operation, underground gasoline tanks. - scope of the pollution," Irey said. "So a student at the University of Californla-San 1
<br /> were owned by Unocal before the com- Officials don't believe any active they don't know if it's 50 feet deep or The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
<br />' the Iowa ban, said in September that state
<br /> pany quit the gasoline retailing business drinking-water wells were affected. 100 feet deep. ... If you don't know the urate national banks' ATMs. The 9th Cir
<br /> '3,; in California. 7ivo are closed, but four But because the pollution was never
<br /> 0 others are now owned by Tosco Corp., adequately studied or cleaned up, no covers California, reached the opposite co
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