Grand jury indictment for shop removing diesel truck emissions devices.

[5030]

When considering pollution from locomotives, consider this. A typical train might haul 3,000 tons of freight 500 miles and consume approximately 3,049 gallons of diesel fuel. ... (3000 tons x 500 miles) / (3,049 gallons) = 492 ton-miles per gallon. This efficiency might be stated as “a train can move a ton of freight 492 miles on a gallon of fuel.”

Seems like we should get rid of trucks and ship everything by rail.

Cannot because rail don't go everywhere a truck can. Tell me when the last time you saw a rail siding at your local Wal-Mart?

 

[angusblack]

And the Gov't is focusing on this stuff, while murderers, rapists, and thieves (not to mention Covid infected) people cross our borders without any recourse.

Standard EPA MO...make an example out of one, and the others will fall in line. Very sad.

Most of our diesel fuel is imported, while our own refined diesel is exported due to the always charming EPA regulations...just sayin...

Not true. You'll be glad to know that the US produces about 95% of the diesel it uses and imports just 5% of the total used. The following statistics for 2019 are from the US Energy Information Administration:
"U.S. oil/petroleum refineries produce most of the diesel fuel the United States consumes. The diesel fuel consumed in the United States is distillate fuel with a sulfur content of 15 parts per million or less, which is called ultra-low sulfur diesel/distillate or ULSD. ULSD is used as diesel fuel and as distillate heating oil. The majority of U.S. distillate end-use consumption occurs in vehicles with diesel engines.

In 2019, U.S. refineries produced about 1.8 billion barrels (73.6 billion gallons) of ULSD and U.S. consumption was about 1.5 billion barrels (61.3 billion gallons). The United States exported about 0.4 billion barrels and imported about 0.1 billion barrels of ULSD in 2019. Imports were equal to about 5% of total U.S. consumption of ULSD."

 

[fidowanttobe]

So,
Green Energy is totally GREEN then?? What does PolitiFact say about this?
Rubs me when the "NEWS" is so eager to say something is false, do they cover stories like this??

Hundreds of fiberglass wind turbine blades pile up in landfills

The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass objects.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Oaktree]

Cannot because rail don't go everywhere a truck can. Tell me when the last time you saw a rail siding at your local Wal-Mart?

And even where rail once ran, lots of those RoWs are now abandoned (with tracks pulled up), long neglected/overgrown or converted into bike paths, snowmobile trails, etc with road crossings long since paved over.
It would cost a fortune to get them back in usable condition, if even possible.

And like you said, most of those rails went where they were needed 150 years ago, which may or may not coincide where the need is today.

 

[fried1765]

And even where rail once ran, lots of those RoWs are now abandoned (with tracks pulled up), long neglected/overgrown or converted into bike paths, snowmobile trails, etc with road crossings long since paved over.
It would cost a fortune to get them back in usable condition, if even possible.

And like you said, most of those rails went where they were needed 150 years ago, which may or may not coincide where the need is today.

Rail transport does seem to still work well in Europe.

 

[Username Taken]

Rail transport does seem to still work well in Europe.

Continental Europe basically started from scratch in 1946. Much of their infrastructure had been bombed to rubble so there was no layered, antiquated system that had to be torn up in order to rebuild it right.
After the War we spent far more and money rebuilding Europe and, to a lesser degree, Japan than we did rebuilding our own Country. In fact, that's where much of the pollution problem in this Country began.

The War was sold as a struggle for survival so we built, manufacured, smelted, mined, etc without regard to -- Anything. Afterall, it was a War of Survival. Everything and anything goes. Including Nukes

Then, after the War, since virtually everything that moved in Europe and Japan and been bombed or shelled into a pile of debris, we made everything for them. They couldn't. They had nothing to make anything with.

So, again with the coal burning, the mining the smelting..... We even shipped cars to Japan in those days!!!! And Europe! Anything we made, they'd buy it. As fast as we could make it, they'd buy it.

All during the 50's Companies and Union Workers got fat as fat could be and really didn't care what happened to the environemnt, their Cities, their workers...... Nothing. It was bad. Really bad. Really, really bad. LBJ's VietNam that he created so he could install his 'Great Society' was also a huge, giant contributor.

People bought new cars every 3 years. You were nobody if you drove a car over 3 years old. And what cars they were!! Big, huge, giant Land Yachts! WIth about as much technology as generic motors could muster -- (None). 10 miles to the gallon...... Down hill. Didn't matter though. I vividly remember Hi Test gasoline for 25 cents a gallon in the early 60's. Clark stations. All they sold was Hi Test

Pollution? What's pollution? We'll have to take that up at our next Union Meeting

Then Richard Milhouse Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency because it needed to be done. We warned him about being careful who got hired. We were nervous that it would be a haven for burnt out hippies and over-educated imbeciles. We also warned about the power given to such an agency.... Not elected, no real oversight, activist Judges making Law in Court out of thin air.

We were right to worry. Never let a crisis got to waste, right boys?

 

[5030]

So,
Green Energy is totally GREEN then?? What does PolitiFact say about this?
Rubs me when the "NEWS" is so eager to say something is false, do they cover stories like this??

Hundreds of fiberglass wind turbine blades pile up in landfills

The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass objects.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Biden 'says' they will produce windmill blades in Pittsburg from steel...duh. First off they are fiberglass not steel and secondly, Biden don't have a clue about most things.

 

[5030]

Rail transport does seem to still work well in Europe.

No better than here. End delivery is still by motorized transportation.

 

[Username Taken]

No better than here. End delivery is still by motorized transportation.

They have a HSR (HighSpeedRail) system that works. Which keeps millions of people off the roads per year.

Can't get it to work here, for obvious reasons

 

[PuffyC]

So,
Green Energy is totally GREEN then?? What does PolitiFact say about this?
Rubs me when the "NEWS" is so eager to say something is false, do they cover stories like this??

Hundreds of fiberglass wind turbine blades pile up in landfills

The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass objects.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I don't think anyone claimed green energy was 100% green (whatever that even means). It's just about being better, which is something we should all want. But you left out the best part of that article which states:

"Texas-based Global Fiberglass Solutions claims to be the first U.S. company to develop a method to repurpose discarded turbine blades into useful products.

The company uses material from the blades to make fiberglass pellets that can be turned into flooring, parking bollards, warehouse pallets, and other items.

'We can process 99.9% of a blade and handle about 6,000 to 7,000 blades a year per plant,' CEO Don Lilly told Bloomberg. 'When we start to sell to more builders, we can take in a lot more of them. We're just gearing up.'

So yay, someone saw a problem (blades in a landfill) and created a solution. The industry is still in it's infancy so that's the kind of progress we want to see. As to "the "NEWS" is so eager to say something is false, do they cover stories like this??" we should want our media to point out things that are false - that's a good thing that helps us be smarter - and if you consider DailyMail news then they did cover it. But don't get me defending the media and their biased agendas

If you think it's bogus and want Politifact to check it (or anything) you can submit it yourself, which is how they decide much of the stories they fact check. Not much here to fact check though. Maybe if the story made some outrageous claim like planting turbine blades grew unicorns or that buried blades spontaneously turn into radioactive arsenic that will kill us all they'd take a look but there's nothing really surprising about anything in this article that would warrant fact checking IMO.