Is our lobby not big enough?
#16
01-27-2015, 12:04 AM
If Americans wanted looser pollution control laws they'd organize and vote for them. The NRA and the bikers rights lobbies demonstrate this works quite well.
Not going to happen with diesels because there is so little impact. Americans don't care about big issues let alone small potatos such as inconvenience to diesel owners. Diesels in personal trucks are a luxury item and on commercial vehicles just another business expense. In areas with high levels of local pollution in the US there's no advantage to loosening OTR diesel pollution regs and they drive national legislation.
Even if we ignore AGW (I could care less about it since when the planet was warmer it supported more abundant life) local pollution is real and most younger Americans have never seen smog thanks to pollution controls. Low pollution in the US is a plus. What distant countries do with their fuel isn't our problem, especially if they buy some of that fuel from the US or allies like Canada.
Not going to happen with diesels because there is so little impact. Americans don't care about big issues let alone small potatos such as inconvenience to diesel owners. Diesels in personal trucks are a luxury item and on commercial vehicles just another business expense. In areas with high levels of local pollution in the US there's no advantage to loosening OTR diesel pollution regs and they drive national legislation.
Even if we ignore AGW (I could care less about it since when the planet was warmer it supported more abundant life) local pollution is real and most younger Americans have never seen smog thanks to pollution controls. Low pollution in the US is a plus. What distant countries do with their fuel isn't our problem, especially if they buy some of that fuel from the US or allies like Canada.
#19
02-23-2015, 08:42 PM
Trade winds my friend. Trade winds.
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