It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.
By “dirtier” they mean the exhaust kills people.
Its all about them short term benefits. Live for today, screw tomorrow.
They all think they’ll be saved by the rapture, despite being the most disgusting wretched humans on earth. Additional reading about how they think it’ll happen, salivating imagining they’ll be the pilot or the driver getting beamed up heaven while the nonbelievers fly off the road or crash from cruising altitude. Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days (1995)
Or Calvanists to the Catholics in the 1600s: We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned. There’s room enough in hell for you — we don’t want heaven crammed.
Roll that coal!
Seriously… worry more about the coal industry than some bullshit consumer stuff.
In principle we shouldn’t worry so much about individual consumer actions, but…
By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls.
This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem.
This shit is dumb as fuck, but it ain’t worth losing your sleep over or blowing political capital. It’s just going to piss off more morons while making a near trivial effect on your environment.
I know they are jackasses but you are not helping by relentlessly following this.
I dunno man, I can actually tell just by the way my chest feels if they’ve installed defeat devices when driving behind a diesel truck.
