There’s plenty of ways to get cancer. Like smoking, overconsumption of alcohol, eating too much processed food, being 50lbs overweight, smoking a suitcase full of weed every month….
Yet those are all perfectly legal. So why the hell should my equipment have to be near ZERO emissions, but people can voluntarily give themselves cancer through many other legal means?
How about some balance here? Howcome every piece of equipment I buy with a diesel engine over 25 frickin HP has to have $5,000 + of emissions crap piled on it, which BTW, also breaks later and must be repaired at even more cost, not to mention lower reliability?
Then we have to listen to virtue signalers, who don’t use equipment to farm, mine, saw, construct, etc. spew their garbage about “cancer” caused by us.
This has gone far enough. Air quality if fine and has been cleaned up considerably. People need to start being personally responsible and stop making anyone who uses machinery for a living foot the bill for their virtue signaling causes. People like me who run equipment are tired of the bullseye being on us. We’ve done a LOT to help clean up the air.
I don’t want rolling coal or dirty air either, just some mentally stable balance in the way we go about regulations on people and the way they make a living.