Date:         Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:43:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)
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I read on MSN's homepage news about Ford having built a 65mpg diesel Fiesta
and currently selling it everywhere except the USA.  Their guy states that
the US is so anti-diesel that they can't sell those fuel efficient vehicles
here.  Yet I hear the US Gov. is considering a 'bail-out' to Ford Motor
Company because they aren't selling the P.O.S. trucks and big vehicles they
do market here in the US.
  Can someone 'splain why it's more "green" to allow a 'regulatory
exemption' to SUVs for fuel efficiency standards and a tax break to buy them
and then 'over-regulate' diesel vehicles?  Yuh think a 10mpg Humvee or a 9
liter Triton V-10 pickup is more "green" or less polluting than a diesel
Fiesta getting 65-frikken miles per gallon?   How come our automakers can
sell pickup trucks with the same motor you find in long haul tractor trailer
trucks (Cummins, Navistar, Allison, etc.) so that Mrs. Rancher can drive
down to Wal Mart for a Chinese plastic bucket, or Mr. Macho can run round
the freeways all week looking cool in his 'trash can masher' (Wheels and
tires so big he can straddle the yellow line and get the cans on both curbs)
and yet we aren't allowed to convert our Vanagons to TD power in many
states?

 These 'allowed vehicles" use up six times as many barrels of oil burned up
per mile traveled, and six times as much fossil fuel by-product is spewed
into the atmosphere.  It's ok for the gas guzzler to be here, but not the
little diesel car? (according to the  corporate whores who write our US
vehicle emission standards).

 70% of the ROW vehicles on the roads are diesel powered (because it's more
fuel-efficient)...What's with these creeps making the rules here in the USA?
They stupid?  They greedy?  They think we (the population) here have an
unlimited supply of Vaseline and will just stay bent over, taking it for
ever?
  Rant over..Back to your regular political Palin-tology news now (for us
here in the US.)
  Don Hanson