Diesel *Knock*!
Very racist thing your government did.
First they targeted the blacks by going after menthol ciggies.
This is a move against white bros.
All those trucks going to the crusher?
Maybe. But when they claim “thousands of tons” of excess oxides of ntrogen over a period of 10 years and millions of vehicles... how serious could it be ?
Also:
“Technical details about the alleged violations were not provided.”
https://dieselnet.com/news/2023/12cummins.php
My question: what is the fix? I don’t see anything about mandated repair.
Eventually big companies will bail from the U.S. much like the wealthy are fleeing California, and we’ll be left with a nation as vibrant as Eritrea.
I know it’s coming, they’re going to mess with deisel and we’re going to end up with a national emergency. It will probably happen after Biden steals 2024 thanks to the RINOpublican party doing nothing about election integrity, but the demomarxist domestic enemies will have puppet Biden regulate the crap out of deisel and then watch out: Gee whiz, why are all the supermarkets out of food?
My next door neighbor works for Cummings in IT. He telecommutes to India a lot.
Cummings has operations there so they could transfer production. It would help make up the cost of the fine.
Nice going Joe.
I find this hard to believe. I retired from Cummins after 40 years. With about 70,000 employees, this would be too big a secret to keep quiet. I don’t see how this could be a thing that was sponsored by management. There are plenty of aftermarket chips that boost the power and defeat the smog control. Cummins would not have to build this into their controls.
Once the diesel truck is out of warranty, they can be modified to increase mileage and avoid using that Blue Def additive. We have sent trucks out of state to be so modified. It isn’t cheap but the initial cost is paid for in increased mileage and no Blue Def needed.
What they don’t say is the fact that they did twice the amount of work per gallon than gasoline engines did.
I would tell the EPA to show me THE LAW, that requires me to follow their directives. They are dictators, and there are no Congressional laws passed, gone through the Senate and signed by the President. I would tell them to PACK SAND, or SHI’IT.
Even Ayn Rand could not have conceived of a tyranny as dark as this current one...
My gut reaction is that this is a shakedown and harassment. More leftist government lawfare.
Diesel engine manufacturer Cummins has been blackmailed for a record $1.675 billion. That kind of money will be passed down to the end user buyer. The price of a HD truck will go way up to pay for this crap.
National Socialism in action.
All this emissions crap is just that ... crap.
If everyone were driving Pete 379s with 3406E engines the air would still be just fine.
All this nonsense is gov’t control of production, it should be ignored.