Posted on 05/31/2013 12:48:44 PM PDT by logi_cal869
A vehicle emissions reduction device, which is mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency, forced an ambulance to shut down while carrying a suspect who was shot by Washington, D.C., police.
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More blood on their hands.
They need these devices on ALL the ambulances in DC.
Specifically any that serve the Congress.
Ping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea_nitrate
A couple of decades ago I asked a druggist why the 25% urea cream was kept behind the counter. He said it was because it could be used in explosives. Now, to run a diesel car, other than a VW TDI, you must buy a gallon of pure urea per 15,000 miles. If you can use it to make an explosive, what will happen to its availability when somebody uses it in a bomb? I’m thinking it will go away. By EPA mandate any car requiring it will only go 500 miles after that and then shut down. I think, once somebody builds it into a bomb, that every diesel sold in America will be useless within 500 miles. (Except my TDI.)
Massive lawsuit against vehicle mfgr in 3....2.....1.....
Liberalism demands the individual sacrifice himself for the collectivity. Mission accomplished.
What could possibly go wrong?
The federal bureaucracy, not content with harassing citizens is now simply killing them. I think I remember this movie from the late 18th century. It did not end well for some.
My sister owns a school bus, she is a contractor, That has this same device on it. It broke down like this 3 times last year. It had a Caterpillar engine in it. Caterpilar no longer supplies that engine for Buses because it caused so many problems. It was a great engine that the EPA screwed up when they added this regen BS to it.
So, you might say that the Gubbermint killed this guy twice.
This happened to a suspect shot by police. Wonder what the reaction if it happened to a victim or heart attack?
I read on another thread that the suspect was in cardiac arrest when the engine failed. If so, the failure almost certainly did not make a difference - when I trained as an EMT, they told me that the odds of restarting a heart stopped by trauma were about a thousand to one against. (This fact in no way mitigates the dangerous insanity of the EPA’s policy.)
I doubt that will hold the tort lawyers back any...
There is no way that this outcome couldn’t have been foreseen. They just didn’t care.
Some use urea, and some use the DPF. The urea tank needs to be refilled periodically and the DPF needs to be cleaned periodically, usually by burning off the contaminants.
We’ve seen the DPF burn off set the vehicle on fire before, I think.
On the new Grand Cherokee diesel, the 8.5 gallon urea tank has to be refilled every 10K miles.
Your’e right the suspect will probably get more sympathy than a victim or heart attack.
Looking at this from a different perspective, it was poor maintenance practice on the part of the ambulance company.
Similar to running out of fuel.
Not only that, the US feral government has placed dynamite bombs in the dashboards of all vehicles that are totally unnecessary if you wear seat-belts.
“On the new Grand Cherokee diesel, the 8.5 gallon urea tank has to be refilled every 10K miles.”
OMG! It’s $19/gallon!
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