MIKE - I forget what magazine I saw this cartoon in, maybe Newsweek, but back in the early 70's, this little car, looked like a VW Bug, going down the road with this dirty foul air everywhere .... and the little PUFFS out the sxhaust pipe were all pretty, colorful, & green.... Saw a post on another forum last week that said the exhaust coming out the end of new car tailpipes is cleaner than the air going INTO the engine in some bigger cities right now. Our little Kohler's will never run that clean.
Frankly, I don't find it odd that the EPA wants to track oil. I signed a paper where I buy my leaded race gas that I won't use it in a polution controlled vehicle on highways several years ago. And I had to buy "SPECIAL" fertilizer to winterize my yard fall of '10 because my county prohibits the use of one form of nitrate. They sell tons of the prohibited stuff but only to people outside my county. It all ends up in the streams, rivers, & lakes and promotes weed & algea growth. Farmers in production agriculture don;t have to go thru that, they do have to have a license to spray their own herbicides & pesticides, but they're much more responsible with fertilizers.
Some of these restrictions I have to agree with. But If I buy a case of oil, even though it's now required by law, if I go back into that store with 10-15 gallons of waste oil I know how they would act. I have a well on my property, I'm fussy about how I handle used waste oil, antifreeze, paint, gasoline, chemicals. I don't want it in my well. But I also want a place where I can get rid of them easily. The county recycle center where PAUL R. worked was 3 miles down the road, but they tore it down and built a grocery store & McDonalds there now. They won't let me dump used motor oil there now.
From what I've read on diesel pickup sites, the environmental agencies in the US want diesels to run to the same cleanliness standards as gas engines. That's why the new Ford, Chevy, Case/IH engines need DEF (diesel exh. fluid), urea. In Europe the diesel's have to burn dirtier fuel, more sulpher, etc. but have their own standards to meet. Also about 80% of their cars are diesel powered where maybe 10-15% are in the US.
Where SON works the new Tier 4 compliant engine costs $25,000 MORE to the end customer than the tier 3 did. The new engine has two turbochargers, not 1, has coolers for everything, coolant, oil, intake air, fuel, exhaust, the whole engine package increased in size about 25%, and about 100% more complex. A new design Tier 4 compliant version is coming out in another year or so, will be diesel-Electric like a RR locomotive. The computer will control the operation of the engine, not the operator.
And probably not too much after that we'll be required to fit cat. converters to our 50 yr old lawn mowers.
I read an article couple months ago that the largest polluter in the beef industry is the transportation to/from packing plants then customers. Second biggest polluter is the cows themselves. Evidently their FLATULENCE is a pollutant too! Their answer to this situation is for everyone to eat TOFU.
Like you said MIKE, Wait till those EPA people find out that the real cause of pollution is PEOPLE.
