What do those with, who want, and who influence political and/or economic power want to control? The same things people have sought to control for at least six thousand years.

Of course it is, but there are far too many people who would rather see stuff destroyed than it to pass into hands of people who can use it.

Indeed, the rental economy. You own nothing peasant. It’s one big company town where you work for the privilege to keep living. A hole of payments you can never dig yourself out of. That’s the future. You won’t have a private passenger automobile unless you can afford the kind the wealthy can and maybe not even then…

Why? It’s rather self evident at this point.

I ride a bicycle in traffic and the most offensive vehicles left on the road are government owned transit buses. Compared to the way things were today is nothing. About the only place that still smells like Chicago did in the 70s is tunnel at McCormick place where the bus exhaust and cigarette smoke gets concentrated.

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Since you didn’t understand it, I’ll try presenting it another way:

Your elected dear leaders and those that purchase them and the unelected bureaucrats. You know, the people who write laws and regulations and get them passed.

There are actually people in the world who find it horrible that flood damaged and otherwise totaled or just plain old cars from the USA end up in places where people want cheap wheels. Considering this fire truck was retired for not meeting some modern safety requirement it’s rather amazing it got out of their grip…

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.