JRscooby wrote:
ShinerBock wrote:
Well it is because of those people that I have to pay more for fuel due to lower efficiency, pay more for my truck due to the emissions equipment, decreased reliability, and pay more for repairs/maintenance in the long run due to NOx emissions that only effect the health of people in highly populated areas. Why should I have to pay for their wants?
Me me me it's all about me. You do not have to pay. You choose to drive a new diesel truck. If you can afford to drive the new diesel you could choose a new gas, or a old diesel. IMHO, the only choice you should have is to modify the engine to no longer meet emission standards.
Yeah, all those people who live in the city were NOx is a health issue, it is all about me because they don't want to move away from their favorite Starbucks. It is because of these heavily populated areas we have to have such strict NOx restrictions and emissions equipment on our trucks, and we would have no need for them if people would simply disperse because there would not be enough people in an area to have any effect on human health. No, but it all about me with these kind of people because god forbid they are more than 5 minutes away from anything.
Learn how and where NOx forms. You don't see this dark haze over the country side like you do in the city. Since our laws are one size fits all, I have abide by the same emissions laws as someone in the city even though NOx is not stagnated and has time to dissipate to turn into good ozone where I live. Places like southern California need these laws and restriction because of the heavily populated, not where I am from. So why should I have to abide by the same NOx emissions laws?
If you love around the pink areas of this map, you need NOx emissions. The yellow and uncolored areas, no.
Mapped: nitrogen dioxide pollution around the world