[geeks] Elation... :-) a new rescue mobile?

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
"
"On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:00:31PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
"> On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 02:47 PM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
"> >
"> >it does, but not as good as a vw diesel - in other words, an
"> >unimpressive advancement.
"> >
"> And what's a huge shame is they are revising the emissions standards... 
"> especially in NY so that no diesel cars can meet the acceptable 
"> criteria... so they are no longer shipping them here.  Some idiot 
"> enviro-SUIT.
"
"That's because US emissions laws are bloody stupid.
"
"They only count parts-per-unit-volume when rating an engine.
"
"The result is that an engine that has higher per-unit emissions
"will fail even if it outputs a small fraction of the pollution
"of another engine with lower per-unit emissions.
"
"Example: Nader and the gang killed the VW Beetle in the 70s because it
"had higher per-unit volume emissions than other cars.  What those idiots
"didn't account for though, was that the Beetle's total output was far
"lower than most other cars, so it really polluted less.
"
"Any engine designer will also tell you that they could reduce emissions
"on modern cars by removing the emission control system.  In many cases
"it actually increases pollution instead of decreasing it.

definitely true in the '70s, and the major reason for the infamous air
pumps - simply -dilute- the poisons until they sank below the ppm
limit in a larger volume.

and they actually used to tune the cars rich to make the early cats
et al work better!  that increases consumption.  this reduces
pollution?
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