Don't know what you are smoking, but huge stack emissions are difficult to
measure accurately and because of the intimacy they share with the E.P.A.,
are often given a green light for breaking emission guidelines. They have
huge budgets for legal defenses, and are not afraid to tie government
agencies up in knots.
I remember back in the days 1955-56 when there were absolutely NO
emission regulations. A 1955 Chevrolet in-line 6 cylinder engine, coupled
to a manual 3 speed /w overdrive transmission on bias ply tires would
consistently deliver 25 mpg at a steady state 60 miles per hour.
So, if you drove 100 miles, you would burn 4 gallons of regular grade
leaded fuel. If you really want the UHC, CO, and other exhaust emissions, I
can find them for you, but, they were not regulated then.
THEN, IN ABOUT 1972, CAME EMISSION REGULATIONS AND CONTROLS, like Air
injection into the exhaust stream (smog pumps) Exhaust gas recirculation,
(EGR) Retarded camshaft and ignition timing, (we didn't have Catastrophic
Converters yet), very lean air/fuel ratios, and modified fuels (eliminated
tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline and replaced it with some very deadly
additives that contaminated ground waters. Hexavalent chromium being one of
them.
The tailpipe emissions went down, and the EPA said, "Isn't that neat!"
Funny thing, fuel economy with the modified gasoline on your Chevrolet
in-line 6 went down from 25 mpg to 8 -10 mpg. Soooooo, your 100 mile drive
that used to burn 4 gallons of gas, now consumed nearly 10 gallons of
modified (more expensive, more fuel taxes, too) gasoline.
Riddle me this. What happened to the other nearly 6 gallons of
gasoline?
Stop trying to blow smoke up my skirt and tell me it's good for me.
Only one party wins this one, and it is not you and me. Uncle Sam wins
this round, and tries to say it's the greedy oil barons.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
On Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:09 PM Jeremy via Gmclist
wrote:
> Absolutely it matters. Regulating one or two smokestacks and finding ways
> to reduce the pollution output of those 2 smokestacks is a lot easier than
> regulating millions of tailpipes. In AL there is no regulation of
> tailpipes at all. FL as well just to cover 2 states I've lived in. There is
> monitoring and regulation of industrial pollution. So yes it matters and
> it's not difficult to understand that it is easier to monitor and reduce a
> single large fixed source than millions of small mobil sources.
> --
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Knezek
> 1976 Glenbrook
> Birmingham, AL
>
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measure accurately and because of the intimacy they share with the E.P.A.,
are often given a green light for breaking emission guidelines. They have
huge budgets for legal defenses, and are not afraid to tie government
agencies up in knots.
I remember back in the days 1955-56 when there were absolutely NO
emission regulations. A 1955 Chevrolet in-line 6 cylinder engine, coupled
to a manual 3 speed /w overdrive transmission on bias ply tires would
consistently deliver 25 mpg at a steady state 60 miles per hour.
So, if you drove 100 miles, you would burn 4 gallons of regular grade
leaded fuel. If you really want the UHC, CO, and other exhaust emissions, I
can find them for you, but, they were not regulated then.
THEN, IN ABOUT 1972, CAME EMISSION REGULATIONS AND CONTROLS, like Air
injection into the exhaust stream (smog pumps) Exhaust gas recirculation,
(EGR) Retarded camshaft and ignition timing, (we didn't have Catastrophic
Converters yet), very lean air/fuel ratios, and modified fuels (eliminated
tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline and replaced it with some very deadly
additives that contaminated ground waters. Hexavalent chromium being one of
them.
The tailpipe emissions went down, and the EPA said, "Isn't that neat!"
Funny thing, fuel economy with the modified gasoline on your Chevrolet
in-line 6 went down from 25 mpg to 8 -10 mpg. Soooooo, your 100 mile drive
that used to burn 4 gallons of gas, now consumed nearly 10 gallons of
modified (more expensive, more fuel taxes, too) gasoline.
Riddle me this. What happened to the other nearly 6 gallons of
gasoline?
Stop trying to blow smoke up my skirt and tell me it's good for me.
Only one party wins this one, and it is not you and me. Uncle Sam wins
this round, and tries to say it's the greedy oil barons.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
On Fri, May 24, 2019, 7:09 PM Jeremy via Gmclist
wrote:
> Absolutely it matters. Regulating one or two smokestacks and finding ways
> to reduce the pollution output of those 2 smokestacks is a lot easier than
> regulating millions of tailpipes. In AL there is no regulation of
> tailpipes at all. FL as well just to cover 2 states I've lived in. There is
> monitoring and regulation of industrial pollution. So yes it matters and
> it's not difficult to understand that it is easier to monitor and reduce a
> single large fixed source than millions of small mobil sources.
> --
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Knezek
> 1976 Glenbrook
> Birmingham, AL
>
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