Posted on 08/02/2025 3:25:08 PM PDT by Enterprise
A 65-year-old Wyoming man (Troy Lake)is in federal prison from pulling EPA-mandated emissions systems from ailing diesel engines. As the Trump administration inches toward reversing those mandates, Troy Lake's family is pushing for the president to pardon him.
Because he removed emissions controls from diesel engines, a 65-year-old Wyoming man is bracing for his sixth month in federal prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...
1. Immediate pardon.
Remove and ban catalytic converters!
...and reimburse VW for the outrageous fines imposed for following the letter of the law - if not the spirit - and making their turbo diesels perform as they should.
similar story - I worked for a company that made paper. Paer mills have power boilers with smoke stacks.
An EPA rule came in to put a certain type of particulate scrubber in on the smoke stack and monitor and report particulate and opacity regularly. Being the good citizens that we were, we put in TWO scrubbers for redundancy purposes even though only 1 was required. Reporting was done as required and opacity was always WAY below the specified limits.
However, the redundant scrubber had a mechanical issue so it was taken off line awaiting repairs. Reporting on the other continued and the stack’s opacity was still well within limits.
The EPA figured out, months later, that the redundant scrubber was off line.
Even though the smoke stack with the one specified scrubber was way under the upper limits and there had been regular reports reflecting that, they sued the company for not reporting the redundant scrubber was off line.
Sued as in $5M sued. And won.
A few years and a gazillion dollars in legal expenses, the company’s appeal was heard and the EPA’s usary fine was thrown out.
No matter how much you hate the EPA, you don’t hate them nearly enough.
“Troy Lake reported to prison Feb. 10 and remains at the FCI Florence correctional complex in Colorado – where he’s instrumental to the prison’s diesel shop.”
He might be more valuable where he’s working now (helping others get a career going), although he should also be pardoned and paid for what he’s doing.
The American government tends to viciously hate Americans. But sure do love them some ignoramuses from foreign s***hole countries.
I did Nazi this coming from the puppeteers of Pedo Joe, the senile child molester.
That's because the Lefty stooges on the bench slow-walk these cases to run up your lawyer bills.
That piece of irony just jumps out at me. He is imprisoned for making diesel engines run better, so why not take advantage of his skills and have him work in diesel engines as long as he is imprisoned. The Government sure does love free labor1
That made a fool of the big manufacturers and endangered their patents and repair profits.
My grandfather made his car and tractors on his farm run on wood gas during WWII.
I don’t know that it made fools out of the industry. The industry does what is mandated.
If the government simply said, this is what we want at the tailpipe, do it anyway you see fit, we’d see a lot of innovation.
Instead, the government dictates.
I did see what you did there. 8<)
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