If you follow the Senate and Congress news, EPA overreach was out of control and CAFE standards are history. Shipping has been long talked about and vessel size increased large enough they could not fit through Panama. I still hold the wait and see what shakes out, keep an eye on automakers in what they do.

 

add in epa just got caught with over 20 billion in private held bank accounts

Ask why they did that????
Who was getting paid off ?
why hide funds congress had allocated

 

When an agency gets a budget, they have to spend it all in order to sustain that budget for the following year(s). So, I'm going to guess that they moved it out of sight so they could continue to get more.

 

I believe partly....
But they also have opportunity to return unused funds to treasury. ......
This morning 4.7 trillion.....was a line item at treasury with a blank where did it go entry.
But epa Could dumpDEF...
the road draft tubes for pvc was a grrat fix...no more oiled slick highways..
Just one good

 

The fact that the government owned 6.7 diesel trucks come from the factory without EGR, DEF, or DPF is enough to convince me that deleting is a good idea.

 

Somewhat true, more in the military though on ensuring they spend it all to get that next year. Training flight ramp up heavily in September.

Also, there are instances where agencies do put money in private banks for periods of time, but it's not nefarious in all cases. It's quite a pain in the rear to deal with the treasury for some situations.

 

 

AMEN

 

I thought that was just military vehicles? Not disputing the fact that is the government, but the government (Civilian) vehicles I was around just 7 years ago were fully emissions compliant so maybe its just some parts?

I can kind of understand the military aspect of it though but don't care for a double standard.

Interesting California quirk when deployed there, if we spilled JP4 or hydraulic fluid while servicing aircraft on the flight line and didn't report it and remediate it - we were responsible for fines not the military.

On a flight deck, whole different world we were more worried about not getting blown overboard by jet blast. Then of course having an entire battle group do an emergency circle for a man overboard because someone fell trying to catch the "plastics" bag at the garbage sponson polluted a hell of a lot more than the plastic did. Skipper yelled to the whole crew of the carrier let the damn bag fall next time.

I'm for having a place to drink and breathe but sometimes the insanity of dumping who knows how much MDO/JP5 to do that recovery is ironic. This was a conventional powered carrier too, the subs were all that were nuclear.

 

I don't understand the meaning of the bolded part.

 

because the navy in last 20 or so years has gone ape **** about how trash is disposed of at sea
Some may have fallen overboard trying to catch a plastic bag
Used to we weight the bags and they sank...or didn't

 

Ok, that seems simple enough, don't know why I didn't get it. Thanks.

 

for a note many cruise ships being built, run bunker oil at sea, inshore many now have dual fuel engines, that switch to running on LNG to help keep the port air cleaner ,

 

Yeah, Mr. Sloane got it right, I should have explained when a real man overboard happens, everyone on the ship has to muster to their assigned spots, thats over 5000 people sleeping or on duty while everyone is counted. Then the whole battle group has to stop what it's doing, carrier will send out a chopper, ships starts running in circles to go around where they fell in while the chopper saves them....All because some plastic was in the trash and a poor sailor was terrified to let it fall in. This was in the mid 90s, so at least 30 years.

It's similar to how we as a collective world reduce emissions on vehicles, but the ships that bring the parts that build those vehicles, or the trains, probably dump more pollution.

So yeah, deleting is probably not going to happen for me but I fully understand people's positions on doing it and he frustrations they feel about the whole thing. I stopped modifying the drivetrain (street legal or not) on vehicles a while back just because I didn't feel the gain was worth it to me. Having some dipstick kid roll coal on me while on a motorcycle a few times one day likely plays a part in my not wanting to do it. Other day had a guy in a RAM roll coal on me in the truck a few times thinking he was cute. Thats the kind of stuff that ruins the party for the rest of us. I just press the recycle air button and let them waste money.

 

The deleted trucks I've owned don't smoke, at all. Maybe a light haze under heavy load, but no smoke.

Rolling coal is a special tune. It's a different type of mindset that chooses that option.