Local crackdown on "rolling coal"

[5030]

Diesels are unique in the fact if over fuel them, it just comes out the exhaust as black smoke, you gain power up to a certain point and after that, its just wasted fuel. You over fuel a gas engine, it will run really bad.

EXACTLY. None of my diesels have any emissions hardware and my pickup lost all it's emissions hardware long ago and none of them smoke excessively, even when working hard. It's just a macho thing with grown kids. Should be fined.

 

[5030]

Hmmm..... I can see that I'm sure missing a lot. Smoking trucks - loud bikes - angry/upset folks. I guess being hunkered down out here isn't really that bad.

Like the Hardley thing... 'Loud pipes save lives'... Bullsnot. Loud pipes tee off voters and then they enact noise ordinances and the loud pipes garner a fine. Fine with me. Hardley owners especially 'think' the louder the bike is the faster it goes. Just the opposite is true but then I've never seen a fast street Hardley, Seen plenty of obnoxious ones though

I have this Triumph R3 bagger I own that will blow the fenders of any Hardley on the street and is quiet as a mouse. Own a Hardley as well, low rider. Stock exhaust, I hate noise.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Sad, how many young boys grow up pretty much without a father figure. And society seems to think that's alright.

But if you are going to fine, then why not end all such stupid behavior? Pulls, dragstrips, races? Or make them all comply to strict environmental standards.

 

[Shaneard]

Sad, how many young boys grow up pretty much without a father figure. And society seems to think that's alright.

But if you are going to fine, then why not end all such stupid behavior? Pulls, dragstrips, races?

Don't forget to include NASA with them silly rockets damaging the ozone as well. Where does it stop?

 

[Industrial Toys]

People setting fire to oil refineries should be fined too. Must have grown up without a father figure.

 

[CobyRupert]

But if you are going to fine, then why not end all such stupid behavior? Pulls, dragstrips, races? Or make them all comply to strict environmental standards.

ehh...because pulls are only a very few people driving 300 feet, or dragging a 1/4 mile, not 100's of thousands of people driving 15,000 miles a year.

Then again, I think that hobby farmers and most TBN users who put less than 300 hours a year on tractor shouldn't need Tier IV.
What gets me is the EPA carb restrictions (non-adjustability) on 2 cycle engines that burn maybe a gallon of gas a year. "Can't have that 1 gallon burning too rich!! Might polute"
So, for most people, this means tossing the weed trimmer in the garbage because it's cheaper to buy a new one (Now that's saving the environment!!)

 

[Shaneard]

ehh...because pulls are only a very few people driving 300 feet, or dragging a 1/4 mile, not 100's of thousands of people driving 15,000 miles a year.

Then again, I think that hobby farmers and most TBN users who put less than 300 hours a year on tractor shouldn't need Tier IV.
What gets me is the EPA carb restrictions (non-adjustability) on 2 cycle engines that burn maybe a gallon of gas a year. "Can't have that 1 gallon burning too rich!! Might polute"
So, for most people, this means tossing the weed trimmer in the garbage because it's cheaper to buy a new one (Now that's saving the environment!!)

Speaking of saving the environment, how about the DEF jugs you buy, a plastic jug in a cardboard box. I'd say most of them get tossed in the landfill as well.

 

[Sodo]

Like the Hardley thing... 'Loud pipes save lives'... Bullsnot. Loud pipes tee off voters and then they enact noise ordinances and the loud pipes garner a fine. Fine with me.

They don't get fines though.
In fact they can physically fight with the police --- and a large percentage of the population -- and politicians -- support their right to do so.
There are current presidential candidates in the USA who support a scoundrel's right to fight with the police.
Soon there won't be any good person who wants that job (to be a policeman).
And departments will have to accept, and put a badge on (other) scoundrels for the simple fact that they were the only ones who applied to be a policeman.

People just get madder and madder, and (currently) showing anger is the way to be a man.
Not just men, even women do this on the interwebs now (probably a lot from troll farms)
This __has__ an end-game.
Which is...... the kids of our generation won't know how to __be adults__.

We have made our bed and we will lay in it.
In a few short years we will be __governed__ by todays kids.
If not already.

 

[Industrial Toys]

They say that in a polluted city, the exhaust coming out of a Tier 4 Final is cleaner than the air going in.

 

[Javabean215]

Then again, I think that hobby farmers and most TBN users who put less than 300 hours a year on tractor shouldn't need Tier IV.
What gets me is the EPA carb restrictions (non-adjustability) on 2 cycle engines that burn maybe a gallon of gas a year. "Can't have that 1 gallon burning too rich!! Might polute"
So, for most people, this means tossing the weed trimmer in the garbage because it's cheaper to buy a new one (Now that's saving the environment!!)

In your example, the "C" in CARB would stand for Common Sense.....instead of California, which is the exact opposite of common sense.....