2003silverado wrote:
Looks like they are going to make the gas engines too complicated for their own good along with the diesels. Up until 2007 diesels used to be considered the pillars of reliability due to their relative simplicity, mainly due to the lack of an ignition system. Since 2007 diesels have been made more complicated in the name of reduced emissions, and it seems most of the problems with the diesels is due to the emissions systems, or the injection systems that are also designed to reduce emissions.
I, and I think others on this forum have sacrificed the power of the diesels for the simplicity and lower cost of repair of the gas engines. Not trying to start a fight because I know a lot of people with the newer diesels like them better than the trucks of a decade ago, but I don't know anyone that wouldn't rather have the engines today without the emission systems.
Of course I would much rather have a truck that belched black smoke and put out 100 times as much pollution out the tailpipe. If I benefit and injure 100 other people in the process why should I care as a red blooded American capitalist. Why should I care if others spend more than $12 billion a year on hospitalization from problems caused by air pollution, not my problem is it?
In Europe the gas direct injection engines produce more particle emissions than even diesel engines though the cost of a filter would be only about $50 per vehicle and would not affect fuel economy. Air pollution in the EU contributes to 406,000 deaths each year, more than 100 million lost days of work, and an economic impact of at least $400 billion.
Pollution benefits a few at the expense of the many and net net the lost is magnitudes greater than the gain for the selfish few. Only a child or a sociopath puts pollution ahead of people.
