According to this pretty credible study, almost 400k people per year are killed prematurely due to diesel emissions (from older engines that lack a DPF):Dont care. I've worked around my diesels I've owned since 2000. The exhaust smells better from a diesel. Your eyes don't water and burn from the diesel exhaust. When was the last time, or anytime, someone died from inhaling diesel exhaust. Would I purposefully inhale the fumes? No. But when I do, I don't wet my panties and call poison control. As for the DPF, yank it, and crank it. Your engine will love you for it. Screw the Draconian EPA.
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Maybe I’m reading the article wrong? Says worldwide 385k people died from air pollution (I’m not sure how they come up with the numbers as somehow they are including some lung/heart disease, strokes, and diabetes in their data) but 47% were diesel related. So that’s 180k (9400 in the U.S.). Obviously that’s to many deaths but I feel these studies sometimes are off. Are they taking a heart disease death and saying air pollution was a possible cause and using it? I don’t know.According to this pretty credible study, almost 400k people per year are killed prematurely due to diesel emissions (from older engines that lack a DPF):
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-pollution-deaths-linked-diesel.html
That's fine if you 'don't care', but other folks might care about their lives and their children's lives, and they are breathing the same air. If you want to make reckless decisions that only affect you, just choose not to wear your seatbelt. Don't rip out your DPF and dump soot into the face of the folks behind you on the trail. It's got nothing to do with any government agency, just about not being a dick.
And that's the crux of the diesel conundrum; they make you choose between leaving your DPF intact and suffering through maintenance nightmares and performance-sucking regen cycles, or ripping it out and being a dick to your fellow man.
Cry me a larger river will ya. I want to be awash in liberal tears lol.According to this pretty credible study, almost 400k people per year are killed prematurely due to diesel emissions (from older engines that lack a DPF):
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-pollution-deaths-linked-diesel.html
That's fine if you 'don't care', but other folks might care about their lives and their children's lives, and they are breathing the same air. If you want to make reckless decisions that only affect you, just choose not to wear your seatbelt. Don't rip out your DPF and dump soot into the face of the folks behind you on the trail. It's got nothing to do with any government agency, just about not being a dick.
And that's the crux of the diesel conundrum; they make you choose between leaving your DPF intact and suffering through maintenance nightmares and performance-sucking regen cycles, or ripping it out and being a dick to your fellow man.
I never mentioned a thing about political ideologies; you're just projecting your own insecurity there. There is nothing 'liberal' about my ideology anyway; I am firmly libertarian on every 'Political Compass' test I've ever taken (as are you, if I had to guess).Cry me a larger river will ya. I want to be awash in liberal tears lol.
It's all about control. You'd obviously be happy under the leftist system in your 'normal use zone'.I never mentioned a thing about political ideologies; you're just projecting your own insecurity there. There is nothing 'liberal' about my ideology anyway; I am firmly libertarian on every 'Political Compass' test I've ever taken (as are you, if I had to guess).
I believe people should be able to do whatever the hell they want, unless it hurts me or my family. Folks that rip out their DPF are just pissing in the well. We don't even need scientists or government agencies to tell us that, because many of us lived through exhaust soot making the air in most American cities un-breathable in the 70s, and it's still happening now in third world countries.
You should try actually using your own brain sometimes, instead of just mindlessly parroting tropes you read on social media. All this 'libtard'/'Trumptard' stuff has turned people into sheep that lost the ability to think for themselves. But I suppose it's easier to babble on about crying rivers of Soylent or whatever the hell you were talking about than making a cogent argument about how modifying your vehicle to dump diesel soot into the air is a good idea.
A "pretty creditable study", ya gotta be kidding. I am in favor of leaving a clean environment for our descendants, but I would not refer to this "study" to support more restrictions on diesel emissions. As studies go, your referenced study is rather slim on accurate and supportable facts. The tern "linked" should be a red flag for anyone reading further into this article.According to this pretty credible study, almost 400k people per year are killed prematurely due to diesel emissions (from older engines that lack a DPF):
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-pollution-deaths-linked-diesel.html
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I let my "Non Filtered" Diesel Truck idle, for 20 minutes, the other day. Just because I hadnt started it in a couple of weeks. Then I revved the engine several times, blowing out the soot.According to this pretty credible study, almost 400k people per year are killed prematurely due to diesel emissions (from older engines that lack a DPF):
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-pollution-deaths-linked-diesel.html
That's fine if you 'don't care', but other folks might care about their lives and their children's lives, and they are breathing the same air. If you want to make reckless decisions that only affect you, just choose not to wear your seatbelt. Don't rip out your DPF and dump soot into the face of the folks behind you on the trail. It's got nothing to do with any government agency, just about not being a dick.
And that's the crux of the diesel conundrum; they make you choose between leaving your DPF intact and suffering through maintenance nightmares and performance-sucking regen cycles, or ripping it out and being a dick to your fellow man.
Pretty sure the air is cleaner that it used to be say 30 to 100+ years ago. My grandfather had great stories about having coal dumped into the home basement to feed the furnace in St Louis with zero particulate filtration on the stack.My political views definitely lean right but the air we breath is now considered a carcinogen. Something everyone should be concerned with.
LolPretty sure the air is cleaner that it used to be say 30 to 100+ years ago. My grandfather had great stories about having coal dumped into the home basement to feed the furnace in St Louis with zero particulate filtration on the stack.
lol, that would be a sight to see.37"s on a Prius...that would be the sweeeeet spot right there.