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Old 09-25-2012, 01:38 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Actually, no. A 2012 semi truck produces quite a bit lower emissions than your 1997 car does--even in a g/mile basis. Look it up yourself:
DieselNet: Diesel Exhaust Emission Standards

1997 would have been the end of Tier 1. The standards for diesel passenger cars was NOx of 1.25 g/mi and PM of 0.1 g/mi on the FTP 75 test.

Heavy duty trucks are engine-certified (not vehicle-certified) on the FTP test. Current standards are 0.2 g/hp-hr for NOx and 0.01 g/hp-hr for PM. If you assume a typical cruise condition for a semi truck of 250 hp and 65 miles per hour that works out to be NOx of 0.77 g/mi and PM of 0.04 g/mi.

So your 15 year old passenger car puts out roughly double the emissions of a 2012 semi truck.
Your truck has roughly the aspect ratio of a billboard.

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Old 09-25-2012, 09:56 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:29 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Old 09-26-2012, 12:58 PM   #55 (permalink)
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People attending the Olympics in China often had to wear masks because the "air" was so "thick" at times...we just exported the "smog" along with the "jobs" to China.
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Old 09-26-2012, 01:39 PM   #56 (permalink)
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People attending the Olympics in China often had to wear masks because the "air" was so "thick" at times...we just exported the "smog" along with the "jobs" to China.
Except they shut down industries and power plants ahead of the Olympics to let the polution clear out. So what was seen was polution mostly from cars.

I also saw other cities air clean up over the years even though they doubled in size during that time without any major manufacturing polution.
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...with all due reverence to the original French battle cry "...let them eat CAKE!" I think it should be changed to "...let them eat OIL!"
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...or, "boiled" in oil?

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