EPA proposes removal of Greenhouse Gas regulations for all commercial and passenger vehicles

What would really help is if they would get rid of CAFE standards. But this is a small step in the right direction, hopefully one that will result in the elimination of EGR from diesel powered vehicles.

 

EGR was never required. It was the dumb### engineers that chose that route to meet the standards. A lot of the large engines over in Europe built the last few years only run a wastegated turbo and no EGR. They clean all the NOx up in the SCR catalyst. Much better design IMO.

 

Anything to distract from the Epstein situation.

 

Wyoming Man In Prison For Removing EPA-Mandated Filters Seeks Trump Pardon | Cowboy State Daily

Talk about overkill. A judge who used to work for Cummins sentenced this man to over a year in Federal prison (at Florence, of all places) for deleting diesel engines. I really hope Trump will pardon him.

 

He took a plea deal for a one count guilty plea to avoid being charged with multiple counts and avoiding his son being charged. This wasn't a guy doing deletes for a couple of buddies - it was a major part of his business.

 

All that tells me is the manufacturers are using flawed technology and they should be paying for building a terrible product that has to be deleted to run properly.

 

It doesn't. People just believe that it does. You could say the same about a dropped valve. Just remove it because it's flawed. No it's just defective or poorly maintained and needs to be replaced.