It always amazes me how leftist politicians always get away with pushing regulations on the public that ultimately makes them richer and us poorer.
On a related subject, I used to own a 1980 Dodge D-50 pickup (that I converted to a convertible). It used a Mitsubishi four cylinder engine with a catalytic converter built into the exhaust manifold. The converter was this cylinder about 5” in diameter and 6” long that was basically like a screen on a screen door but the squares were square tubes six inches long.
I was getting terrible mileage and had heard this might be the problem. I took it off the car, separated the halves, and most of the tubes were clogged by what looked like the material had melted like wax.
I used a chisel and hammer and broke the whole thing away (it seemed to be ceramic) and bolted everything back up and the truck ran great until I sold it several years later.
Won’t CO eventually become CO2? Allowing cars to output more CO won’t do a thing to improve global warming. I remember before catalytic converters, air pollution was a real, tangible problem, in urban areas. Reasonable environmental regulations from the early 1970’s were probably sensible, but the tree f***ers got the bit in their mouths and over egged the pudding, to mix metaphors.
—The problem had to be fixed by the dealer, of course, because all of the electronic complexity of new vehicles basically cuts out the average shade tree mechanic. —
Baloney.
I had a 1980’s dodge omni that stopped running and I parked it in my garage and could not for the life of me figure out why it would not start. So I let my daughter use my 1987 Plymouth reliant. A couple weeks later it stranded her at work.
It was then that I learned about Chrysler computer codes. I did the key turn “on, off, on, off, on” and the check engine light flashed the codes, Morse Code style. I bought a code book from the auto parts store (this was before the internet was much use for this sort of stuff). The reliant said it had a defective Map Sensor. I went to a junk yard and they gave me one. I installed it in about 90 seconds and the car started right up. I then tried this with the Omni. It said it had some obscure electronic part failure (I forget which one). I found it at the back top of the drivers side fender and it looked like a relay. I replaced it for $12 at an auto parts store. The car started right up.
I’ve used the codes since on my Lebaron convertible and my Chrysler 300m (which displays the codes numerically on the odometer). The bottom line is that if it is something to which the computer is sensitive, the car will tell you what’s wrong with it. And most of the time it’s something you can fix yourself easily and cheaply.
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Tim used to leave comments on my blog, and one day I liked his comment so much I posted it as an article.
Since then he has been sending me rants he has about various crap going on that irritates him. Most of his rants are about California, but like this one some of them hit the mark for the whole nation as well. So I thought I would share it with everyone here at FR.
If you like it, do me a favor and leave a comment at the blog for him.
If you would rather just post a comment here, then let me know if it is alright for me to post your comment at the blog for him to read.
Catalytic converters also convert unburned hydrocarbons and nitrous oxides.
These were originally installed in the 1970’s when global cooling was the issue of the day. They were designed to produce CO2 and H20.
Nothing to do with global warming.
The person who makes the most money off of global warming is algore. He’s pulling down $20 million a year.
AB 32 is California’s greenhouse gas reduction law. A new study details how much it has cost Californians to climb on the climate change bandwagon:
Cumulative costs - $135.8 billion;
Annual AB 32 direct costs in 2020 - $35.3 billion;
Gross state product (GSP) reduced by $153.2 billion (a loss of 5.6%);
California job loss - 262,000;
Household energy prices - increase by $2,500 per year for the average family;
State and local tax revenue: reduced by over $7.4 billion; $6.8 billion from state revenue, $640 million from local revenue.
Executive Summary of Report; http://cmta.net/ab32report-download-page.php
Full Report: http://cmta.net/ab32report-download-page.php