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Me too. I sure do wish those emission systems were engineered better. But something had to be done. Anyone over a certain age (50ish?) can remember when huge stretches of the US were covered by a sort of gray/orange cloud of exhaust of all kinds. Cities were so shrouded in smog that you had to decide if you really wanted to drive into it.
The air is hugely better everywhere now. It's been a painful journey but it had to be done. Hats off to us for putting up with all the hassles it took to get where we are now.
Our solution may not be the best, but at least it is moving in the right direction. Everyone benefits, even the ignorant ones who just don't understand and don't care. Luckily most folks are smarter than that.
Maybe next time instead of wasting all our energy fighting about whether to fix a problem, we can put that energy to work figuring out a better way to do it.
rScotty
I wonder what all the stuff we used to make here now shipped 6000 miles from China on huge diesel ships does to the worlds air quality?
Would it be more ethical to “own our own pollution” and make things here, cleanly, under our stringent EPA standards?
Or make everything in China, where pollution is rampant, then diesel it over here in hugely polluting ships? Then Chinese people are stuck with polluted water & air and sickness and the air over oceans get polluted with diesel exhaust.
Are we off-shoring labor and off shoring pollution? Making it someone else’s problem?