Yes, the EPA accuses someone of violating some kind of standards…
AP- The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that Volkswagen intentionally skirted clean air laws by using a piece of software that enabled about 500,000 of its diesel cars to emit fewer smog-causing pollutants during testing than in real-world driving conditions. more here
Just like Toyota was attacked inaccurately for years…
…who needs tariffs when you’ve got Obama’s extortion?!!
Get Rid of the EPA.
“Eepa” sucks! I have a friend that runs landfills, he got 2 semi loads of bottled water that needed to be destroyed for labeling infringement. Eepa wouldn’t let him smash the pallets with a loader to empty the water and recycle the plastic. Apparently water once it is bottled is detrimental to the environment.
The same EPA that poisoned the river in Colorado?
Yet more evidence of the utter incompetence of govt agencies. The news accounts say that the software “defeat device” has been in VW diesel engine control computers for more than five years! This makes VW even more admirable in my eyes: that they secretly were thumbing their noses at the EPA all that time. BTW, I drive a 2009 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI, so my car is affected. Good, I say.
The 2.1 WBX in my ’86 Vanagon Syncro was replaced with an EJ22 Subaru about 20K miles ago. The flat 4 bolts in w/ an adaptor plate, and looks like it grew there. Wiring harness and ECU are tricky though.
The TDI is another popular swap.
If I had to do it over again, I would take a close look at a 1.8T
Can anybody tell me why diesel fuel now costs less than gasoline?
/\ My sediments exactly!
Wha? They made him boil it off?
As early as the turn of the century, urban and industrial waste was having a serious impact.
Early conservationists such as John Muir and T. Roosevelt
saw a need to protect natural treasures .
By the sixties pollution was too widespread to be ignored. The EPA was created to mitigate these problems, and has been largely effective.
But as with any bureaucracy it has continued to grow, searching for more and more things to regulate.
It is now out of control. Note recent overreaches such as the Gibson guitar seizure, the Bundy Ranch fiasco, mine closures and the private waters grab.
This shit has got to be stopped.
Oh, and about the Gold King Mine– way to protect the environment, assholes.
Diesel has always had a lower cost than gasoline. It’s what’s left over after the cracking process.
Look at an oil refinery. You will see cracking towers everywhere. What happens is the crude oil is heated at the bottom of the towers and the vapors rise. The vapors separate with the lightest at the top of the tower and the heaviest at the bottom. So things like kerosene and jet fuel are at the top, motor vehicle fuel somewhere in the middle, and diesel fuel at the bottom. Every bit of this process is at the molecular level. The molecules of the crude oil are “cracked” in this manner and then siphoned off at their respective heights and are piped to different parts of the refinery for further processing.
At one time, diesel was the leftover sludge and because it wasn’t all that flammable, it wasn’t used. Mr. Diesel found a use for it.
The only reason its cost is close to that of gasoline is due to the extensive refining necessary to meet gov’t regulations. Historically, it was cheaper and the biggest demand was interstate trucking. Now with more and more passenger vehicles using diesel, the cost has gone up to match demand. Hell, even Maserati has a diesel powered sports car!
EPA forbade DC from dumping snow into the Potomac! That’s how fucking stupid these people are – DC had to keep the snow in the stadium till it melted and ran into the river on its own. I’m not sure, but DC probably had to pay Dan Snyder for the use of the stadium, which may have been the point, all along.
I saw what you did there.
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Das Fraud-o.
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My question is about the pump price relative to gasoline.
For years it has cost more per gallon than “Regular”.
(This has always struck me as odd, for the reasons you mentioned. That kerosene is like a freebie.)
Lately here in So Cal, I have seen it for as much as a dollar LESS per gal. I wonder why?