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4x4ord
Explorer III
Jan 22, 2017

Is the diesel going to end up going the way of the dinosaur?

Tougher emission standards With the new DI turbocharged gasoline engine technology yielding incredible power and efficiency working in favor of the gasoline engine's future and the difficulties the...
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Huntindog
Explorer
Jan 23, 2017
John & Angela wrote:
This is an argument that quickly gets heated usually between old school and new school thinking. However I doubt anyone can say with a straight face that returning to the way we did things thirty years ago with primarily coal produced power and little or no exhaust emmisions standards is better than what we will see in 10 years with a grid that produces a considerable portion of power from renewables and probably half of vehicles with zero emmisions. But we as a people need to stay focused on that and resist those who will tell us that it costs more to be environmentally friendly in how we do things. It might be cheaper at the moment but look three generations ahead and it will always be cheaper to do it right.

And on that note I'll leave the discussion.

Thank you Shiner for the correction. Interesting links.

John.
No matter what the endevour, the early progress will be pretty affordable and easy.

Getting a race car to 150 MPH cost "X" amount of dollars. Getting one to 300 MPH will cost many times more than twice that amount.

This formula is true for just about anything. Emissions is no different. We have pretty much slayed the dragoon here in the USA. Any further progress will be small and EXPENSIVE. We would be far better off bringing the high polluting countries up to our present standard... That would bring the total world pollution down much faster, and be better for the planet as well.
These things can be accomplished by other means that just throwing US dollars at the countries doing the polluting... Just let them know that access to our market is dependent on them cleaning up their pollution.... They will gripe a lot about the unfairness of it, but they will do it and be better off for it.

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