Mack trucks have been sold internationally for very long time. The special fire truck stuff they might have to improvise as it needs repair/replacement but the Mack truck itself they should be able to handle easily.

The intent is quite apparent: If you can’t afford a fancy electric car you shouldn’t be driving.

Because it’s not pollution or even CO2 they desire to control.

The technocratic world of HG Wells’ “Things to Come”. Experts know what is best for us and best for society. A nice well managed human hive.

You make a good point with fleet replacement but I see another angle on it too now that you bring it up. As the cost of new trucks are increased and their complexity and ownership/operational costs increase fleets are discouraged to replace what they have. The new truck has to pay for itself and making it more…

Trade deals could be used accomplish the pollution aims. But are rarely used to such ends likely because that would start leveling the playing field with american manufacturing.

You need to take a look at China and what 20+ years of making stuff has done to create wealth. They can afford to build empty cities they can afford pollution controls. They just choose to squander wealth building ghost cities instead.

How their schemes will fare long term is irrelevant to the point. They have the wealth to do eliminate far more pollution with far less expense than anything which can be done in the USA at this point without a dime from the US taxpayer that wasn’t voluntarily spent on some manufactured item.

Someone combined the worst of the modern era with the worst of the 1930s.
This must be the target customer:

clean idle regs have already addressed your concern. You’ll see the badging to that effect on the side of newer trucks.

I agree a better use is to get other nations to stop spewing, but not by taxing americans. This country is broke while rich nations like China don’t even bother with decades old cheap technologies to eliminate pollution.

Then on the CO2 front China’s increases (per the deal Obama made) make any decrease in the USA…

Except 25% in the diminishing returns area is a monumental effort which will be very expensive and have a trivial effect if any. We’re looking at a 1/4 of 3% or something of that nature that will cost more than what achieved the prior gains.

This thread ended two months ago. If you’re going to revive a dead thread at least try to make coherent comments instead of producing a string of incoherent profanity and insults. In other words, post sober. If you really are sober your reading comprehension and more is just plain shit.

This sounds more like someone deciding that the mechanic’s time is worth less than buying good oil and brakes. Even at a ridiculous 3K mi change that’s a 78K mile/yr pace on a car that most likely was retired from police duty before it became a taxi. In other words the vic cost them very little to begin with. The CV…

A car is supposed to spend about 100K as cop car before it becomes a taxi.

A house is a capital good. It must be maintained and cared for. It’s cosmetics, structure, and systems all deteriorate over time. If these are not cared for, repaired, and replaced the value will drop. Just like any other sort of capital equipment, building, etc. It is used up over time. Buildings are replaced when…

Land appreciates sometimes. Houses, buildings, are depreciating assets unless money and effort is put into them. Unless the buildings are being enlarged/improved all you’re seeing from maintaining them is an inflationary gain which you then pay taxes on (if not rolled into the next place you live) so it’s a net loss…

Race is a proxy for economic resources and social networks. In other words the two things that can cause cops a shit load of trouble in their careers and lives. Race is used as short cut to determine if a person is someone the cops can get away with abusing. If the cops think they can get away with abusing you, that…

Indeed. Very true. I entirely agree with that. There could be many more that don’t care at all or believe he should be able to use his driveway as he wants but are silent. But the argument presented boils down to ‘it’s 67 to 1' so I was addressing that. I find it annoying that people think freedom means the freedom to…

It tells us it’s theater and the TSA knows it is theater.