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The cheating was a symptom

bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
When VW cheated on the EPA emissions for diesel cars it showed a symptom of a busted out of control EPA.

The cheating was wrong VW must and will pay a heavy price for it.

That is not the root issue.

The root issue is a EPA with its head so far up environmentalists butt it can't see daylight. Diesel cars produce lower total emissions than gas cars because they score a 25% or greater increase in fuel mileage.

Diesel requires less refining, is available worldwide and needs to be used in cars more often. Diesel is the choice in Europe, it should be here too.

I hope Trumps team uses a chainsaw powered by a two stroke motor to gut the EPA and stop its regulatory insanity that costs Americans untold billions of dollars for little to no gain. Then he can head ovr to the FAA and gut that nightmare monster too.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I couldn't agree more. Almost all those alphabet agencies need to be gutted. Any regulations they want to make should have to be passed by congress, as the have the rule of law anyway.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    NO!! VW's Suck!! Chevy's are much better cars and everybody knows that.[:)][}:)][:o)]
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree, gut them all. We were much better off when the big oil,coal financial, etc companies ran everything with no government interference....
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by forgemonkey


    ,,,,,,,,,,wound a little 'tight' today, eh ????? [:D]


    It shows huh? [;)] [:)]
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  • phipdeerphipdeer Member Posts: 101 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What? Everyone that has tried to start or run a business knows there is no such thing as too much government oversight and regulation.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i am about to buy another small utility tractor and am FORCED to have a tier 4 engine with the expensive additive pumped into the exhaust to SAVE THE WORLD...and china opens another coal fired power plant every week...my 40 hp maybe used a 100 hours a year...and all the govt rules smothering everything...glad i quit farming
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    The fuel mileage increase is pretty case specific, don't you think?
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
    The fuel mileage increase is pretty case specific, don't you think?

    not according to what I can find.

    Fuel use efficiency is the name of the game, the diesel wins over all gasoline engines.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_specific_fuel_consumption
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  • use enough gunuse enough gun Member Posts: 1,443 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I were Trump I'd call the heads of all those agencies in and give them each a new $1 bill. Then I'd tell them that was their budget for the year and to spend it wisely.Dave
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,105 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The EPA tail has been wagging the manufacturing dog to damn long under 8 years of a DEMOCRAT president.

    Just sit back and watch the DJT hammer fall.
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,714 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I never did understand how a diesel that got better mileage than a similar gas burner was somehow "dirtier". All I own is diesels, all of em are pre 2006 EPA regs. They are reliable and will last forever.
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  • rambo rebelrambo rebel Member Posts: 4,028
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    NO!! VW's Suck!! Chevy's are much better cars and everybody knows that.[:)][}:)][:o)]




    yeah, V-dubs are the Glocks of the automotive world !!![:p]
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bpost

    Diesel requires less refining, is available worldwide and needs to be used in cars more often. Diesel is the choice in Europe, it should be here too.




    All of which the progressives can not have in order to control the population.
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