California adopts tough diesel emission standards - Yahoo! News

This...needs to stop.
Good thing I'm moving next year.

Oh BTW, I paid 1.89 for D-2 the other day ))

 

As broke as our state is the last thing we should be doing is giving companies an incentive to leave.

 

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Oh BTW, I paid 1.89 for D-2 the other day ))[/QUOTE]

what station, thats low!

 

So for the first time they are mandating a retrofit of emissions control systems that did not previously exist on these older engines, and is not even available or viable for these engines.

Exactly how is that possible? Oh wait, its California. They make up laws as they go with total disregard to common sense.

 

That's nuts. But then again, it is Cali!

 

Only a matter of time before they (state) come after our diesels as well

Hanklin

 

"State officials said the compliance cost is outweighed by an estimated $48 billion to $69 billion in health benefits for Californians afflicted with illnesses caused by breathing diesel fumes."

What?

Are they making the claim that diesel fumes account for, in California, 48-billion to 69-billion in health 'damages'?

I'd like to see the study THOSE geniuses did on that. Pretty lofty claim. And more B.S. from legislators and bureaucrats in a State doing it's damndest to destroy itself......

 

Yeah theyr`e stompin us to death with laws, why don`t they attack these major polluting countrys like China
good grief,It`s funny how the Chinese stopped production work during the Olympics just so tourists could breathe. Just 1 example

Hanklin

 

Here's the news release from the Air Resources Board:
Press Release: 2008-12-12 ARB adopts landmark rules to clean up pollution from big rigs

 

It does not affect the toys most of us drive? However I assume that most of you are aware that your 96+newer diesel vehicles will be smooged in Ca. starting 2010! Other states have preceeded us in this.....

 

Do you have a link for that info?

 

Yeah, I want the link too!

 

They cause it to themselves by smoking, living in and around large populated cities, eating junk (not that I exclude myself) so for us to clean up our vehicles is not going to change the health as much as they claim. We'd have to force everyone to stop drinking, smoking, to exercise, eat healthy and walk to work. I don't see anyone in a square mile from I live doing any of that.

 

Here's a place to start chewing !!

Subject Top Page: On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation

 

Well look on the bright side... because of Federal Interstate commerce laws, California won't be able to stop people from coming in from other states who don't meet these new requirements.

So when it happens, I'll go buy a 1980s Mack and take for a stroll past the capitol, belching black smoke, with a jake brake loud enough to shatter windows.