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Originally Posted by adam728
I think you guys are only looking at hydrocarbons as the pollution/emissions. Hydrocarbons are easy, its NOx emissions that are tough to meet, do plenty of harm, and leaner is not better for them. There's no way you are eliminating catalysts and meeting modern vehicle emissions, I don't care what fuel prep is done.
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NOx emissions on a 100mpg car that 1% or less of the population uses are IRRELEVENT.
Laws need to be adjusted to start necessary industries, as much as you think having NOx regulations as they are is terrific these laws are mainly used to isolate the US market and strangle innovation, exceptions MUST be made if we ever want anything viable to get a start in the market.
Since you bring up NOx I assume the roughly 70 million 1990 and earlier cars that are still on the road make much less NOx than an Insight like 3 cylinder in lean burn right?
Sometimes common sense is lost AND THIS IS NOT A MOTOR VEHICLE< IT IS A MOTORCYCLE WHICH DOES NOT HAVE TO MEET CAR STANDARDS, it can put out over 3x the most lienient car (light truck actuall) standard and be legal.
At the end of the day the pollution associated with producing 1 gallon of fuel and transporting it 5000 miles to your car makes more pollution including NOx than you car could ever make burning the fuel (heck more than a 1960's car can make), the most critical concern of our country must be to conserve fuel in any way possible first (while using common sense)
It is not that I disagree with pollution standards but in the case of anything revolutionary they must be disregarded IFF it creates a more viable energy efficient product.
Heck 50cc motorcycles still don't have active emissions, apparently someone in government does agree at least in part with what I said, just so long as it doesn't have 4 wheels.
Ah well.