Trucking News: EPA: On-Road Vehicles Contribute to Threat of GHGs

[BMT Forum Bot]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of the American people and that emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat

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[ThaddeusW]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of the American people and that emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat

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Well here we go again. If we thought the 2010 Diesel emissions were the last of the emission laws, we are going to be wrong. I had a sneaking suspicion that the EPA was somehow going to start placing limits on GHG emissions from trucks.

This is bad news because it forces manufactures to either cut HP ratings or introduce hybrid drive lines to reducle fuel consumption. Not that its a bad thing but the F#@%ing EPA keeps getting it wrong and gives makers too little time to comply with ludicrous laws resulting in buggy or unreliable emissions technology.

Europe had it right with the Euro laws. It worked like this: Current standard is Euro 1 and Euro 2 will go into effect tomorrow. Now until Euro 3 rolls out you can purchase both Euro 1 and 2 engines but you have to pay extra to register a less clean Euro 1 engine. Once Euro 3 comes out, Euro 1 is phased out but Euro 2 is still available until Euro 4 etc. That would have helped both 2007 and 2010 emissions if makers could still sell older engines and pass the cost onto consumers who want to purchase the older emission rating. That is what is hurting truck makers, the EPA forces everyone to switch at once so buyers snap up every pre emission vehicles resulting in a buying surge and then a long slaes slump. This could have been avoided if they followed Europes method. EPA fail, CARB fail

The best is we keep getting screwed while the old "dirty" diesels are exported and ran elsewhere in the world. So the EPA laws aren't really doing shit for global anything.

[Gambi80]

The best is we keep getting screwed while the old "dirty" diesels are exported and ran elsewhere in the world. So the EPA laws aren't really doing shit for global anything.

Funny thing about that, when my dad went to advertise and sell his old 79 R-model and equally as old hopper trailer YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how many foreign sounding people called asking for that truck for export. When my brother advertised his old dump trailer, it happened to be hooked to my dad's other R-model and part of it was in the picture...he got more calls about the truck than the trailer!