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Philip wrote:
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> You live IN Los Angeles downtown, eh? The West Hollywood Lefties polluted
> your brain, not diesel trucks. You do not have diesel powered buses in LA
> and the remaining fleet of local diesel commercial delivery trucks are
> seldom kept for more than 7 years so ... that leaves only transient
> out-of-state trucks and even those have very few that smoke like you claim.[/color]

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But the heavy haulers and
construction equipment is almost always kept running
up to nearly two decades, or until it can't be made to run
anymore. Fixing the emissions equipment is the last thing
they care about since they don't really have to.

Just head down towards the ports - check out the traffic
in and out sometime. How many are belching smoke every
time they shift? (or during rush hour traffic)

Joseph Oberlander wrote:[color=blue]
> Philip wrote:
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>> You live IN Los Angeles downtown, eh? The West Hollywood Lefties
>> polluted your brain, not diesel trucks. You do not have diesel
>> powered buses in LA and the remaining fleet of local diesel
>> commercial delivery trucks are seldom kept for more than 7 years so
>> ... that leaves only transient out-of-state trucks and even those
>> have very few that smoke like you claim.[/color]
>
> You'd think that, wouldn't you? But the heavy haulers and
> construction equipment is almost always kept running
> up to nearly two decades, or until it can't be made to run
> anymore. Fixing the emissions equipment is the last thing
> they care about since they don't really have to.
>
> Just head down towards the ports - check out the traffic
> in and out sometime. How many are belching smoke every
> time they shift? (or during rush hour traffic)[/color]

Joey ... trucking was my business and the rail head over on Washington, west
of 710 was a frequent drop/pickup point. Since all you do is travel between
I-5 and the Long Beach Harbor, I can see how you could extrapolate the
entire state being over run by belching diesel trucks. Seems that such is
the weakness and limitations of your thought processes. ALL the regulations
to come will not take those aging cockroach trucks off the road. That's like
putting you on a diet so your wife will lose weight. There is no biannual
smog test for commercial trucks, largely because UNLIKE personal vehicles,
COMMERCIAL trucks contribute disproportionately to the movement of finished
goods and raw materials and food. The environment always takes a back seat
to the strength of the economy. We vote for all this green stuff when jobs
and discretionary funds are plentiful. When the pendulum swings the other
way, "green concerns" get pushed back for time or you get what we've got
with the electricity generating plants and petroleum refineries in this
socialist state.
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- Philip