To "delete" or not to "delete"

N-Trouble wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

N-Trouble wrote:


I'm with ya... Those D-bags do nothing to help out the diesel community and are a big reason why we have the crummy/unreliable EPA mandated emissions we have today

Actually no, this started long before the "coal rollers". They are not even close to being the reason why we have these emission requirements.

I love it when people disagree or try to discount someones point and manage to provide ZERO supporting data.

And I love when people make baseless comments that are only their assumptions and act as if they were fact.

Fact is that those D-bag "coal rollers" are not the reason why we have the emission standards today like you stated. Diesel emission regulations have been around ever since they were first introduced as an amendment in 1990 to the Clean Air Act of 1963 during the Bush Sr. administration. They imposed increasingly stringent regulation to curb the toxic and carcinogenic emissions that diesel(and gas) engines emit. The first round of regulations in 1994 limited NOx output to 5.0 g/hp-hr and diesel particulates(DP) to .10 g/hp-hr. Then second round in 1998 reduced the NOx output to 4.0 g/hp-hr while the DP remains the same. In 2003, the third round reduced the NOx limit yet again to 2.5 g/hp-hr while the DP again stayed the same. The 2007 round reduced the NOx to 1.2 g/hp-hr and the DP to .01 g/hp-hr. Finally, the last recent round in 2010 (which we are currently in) reduced the NOx limit to .2 g/hp-hr while keeping the DP limit to .01 g/hp-hr. So as you can see, the "coal rollers" had nothing to do with this. In fact, a lot of these regulations were thought of before most of them were even born.