heh, that guy actually got to the same conclusion with more facts:

https://medium.com/climate-desk/the-volkswagen-scandal-is-just-the-beginning-ba02110925cf

Although it's hard to defend fraud, VW had a hard time with this one.  EPA has become ridiculous in its regulations; basically they want all new cars to get 100 MPG and cost $250,000 effectively forcing everyone to buy pussymobiles (hybrids and plug-ins).  They did it for light bulbs, so why not cars?

Congratulations, you've made it to the second paragraph and past my usual hyperbole.  What I'd really like to see is for diesel to become commonplace in the US.  (Those of you across the pond might not know that we basically only use diesel for trucks.  Passenger cars overwhelmingly run on gasoline here.)  Evidently it's a tax structure thing.  This is of course very silly, considering that diesel engines are far more efficient than gasoline engines.

The EPA seems determined to exterminate small diesel engines too, though.  I don't know why.  For example, the engine in my beloved Aurora AGI6500 diesel generator can no longer be sold in the US.  The EPA stopped approving all products with small air-cooled diesel engines a couple of years ago, resulting in every single-cylinder diesel generator being taken off the market.

I'd like to drive a diesel powered car.  But they're more expensive and not every filling station in the US has diesel, so it's a bit of a disadvantage here.

We europeans have enjoyed that the US wouldn't use all its diesel they get by oil fractioning for the last decades. It was shipped over to us, and helped to maintain a lower price tag.

At least in germany diesel engines in cars have a higher tax rate. Since the tax rate is constant, it rather pays of for those with bigger milage per year.Considering that diesels are harder to get started but once warmed up run more smooth (nowadays;-) its not that silly to not use diesels for those that don't drive a lot.

While most other manufacturers went the route of filtering particles out, the VW solution was to just send them once more through the engine, so you would get smaller (even more aggressive but non regulated) particles.

Since they did the same for regular gas cars, they now may have the same troubles they have with diesels with the other cars.

Regarding the filtering approach - if you have the filter filled up, you need to find a good place to flush it. Either by service, or if the car is running on the highway, so the exhaust is reasonably hot to burn some more of these particles.

Given that most diesel generators are a backup for regular landlines, or just for people living abroad where its to long to put the landlines to, I can't really understand why they wish to regulate them.

Anyways, somebody operating it as an everyday device will want to get more from the money spent on diesel than just electric - You want to have one that also radiates your house.

uh. I'd rather heat with open fire than with electricity since it produces poor air quality.

But nowadays the wind turbine operators are very keen on electric storage stoves, and flip them into heating mode when there is too much electricity in production at random times, while it was done at night time only when they were invented and deployed in the 60'ies...

Hot rods run on roads so I will ask this question here.

Does anybody know what the lines in the road are?

I have seen them in several cities throughout NY and they are in each lane, I almost think I have seen them in VA but I can not be sure. They appear before winter or a while before any snow is in the forecast..  I am not sure what their function is, if they come from a plow or a garbage truck.  

I see them before the snow season so I don't see how they relate to a plow.  I don't think it is garbage truck because there are several garbage collection services within the state.  It isn't wide enough for the postal service and I see it on streets where the postman walks the route.

The darker color is from moisture but they are usually just a shade different than the road surface.  There is eight of them and they run parallel to each other, they will follow the curves in the road and will "turn" at some intersections. 

I have noticed them the past two or three years.

Any ideas?

I don't doubt it, but they are not raised or very minimally raised as I can see.  They started appearing two or three years ago and only during the fall/winter.  They don't seem to go to a storm drain and I have seen them on hills.

Tue Feb 09 2016 11:18:41 PM EST from zooer @ Uncensored

Hot rods run on roads so I will ask this question here.

Does anybody know what the lines in the road are?

I have seen them in several cities throughout NY and they are in each lane, I almost think I have seen them in VA but I can not be sure. They appear before winter or a while before any snow is in the forecast..  I am not sure what their function is, if they come from a plow or a garbage truck.  

I see them before the snow season so I don't see how they relate to a plow.  I don't think it is garbage truck because there are several garbage collection services within the state.  It isn't wide enough for the postal service and I see it on streets where the postman walks the route.

The darker color is from moisture but they are usually just a shade different than the road surface.  There is eight of them and they run parallel to each other, they will follow the curves in the road and will "turn" at some intersections. 

I have noticed them the past two or three years.

 

Any ideas?

It's a brine...pre-salting the road by spraying a brine solution on the roads, rather than chunks of salt, to get a head start on melting snow/preventing melted snow from freezing.

I noticed this long before and foretasted snow.  Is it a paste?  I never saw it wet.  The wet line in the picture is because it had recently stopped raining.

okay, I believe you.

I thought a heavy salt like that before a storm would turn the road white or at least whiter.  I have heard of brine before but didn't know how it worked.  It gets in the cracks and prevents freezing reducing pot holes.  It can be applied 48 before a storm, but it seems to last longer and doesn't spread out, it stays in those lines.

It's also good to keep turkey moist during cooking, if you can find a way to cook a turkey on a frozen winter road.

So the other day I get a phone call from the local dealership informing me about a recall on my car.  The person told me that the manufacture does not have a solution for the recall as of yet but by the summer they hope to have a solution.  (I checked after the phone call, all of this is true RECALL STATUS: Recall INCOMPLETE. Remedy not yet available.)

The sales person wanted to know if I wanted to come in and trade in my current car for a new car to get that headache off my mind.

I was livid.  First of all, I like driving a car until the wheels fall off.  Second I thought that this was an opportunist little fux and using fear to get me in a new car.  These are the same people that ran out of inspection stickers.  This really pissed me off.

I feel the same way zooer.  My wife however does not.  Had to ditch the last car (never could park it in the garage as it had a habit of starting on fire due to electrical recalls).  I just get mail on recalls for it now that I toss, but it does always have a sales pitch on the letter.  Kinda pisses me off as well, even though I have a different car now.

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This is my youngest in my new car

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This is the car from the front

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This is her trying to help me troubleshooting a charging issue.

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This is my falcon when we went to a treat downtown.