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Notice how the government speaks of "emissions" and not "pollution?"
Because pollution hasn't actually been a problem for decades. The purpose of these regulations has always been the same: to get the Common Man out of his private vehicle and onto the bus. The do-gooders in the government initially thought the auto industry wouldn't be able to overcome the hurdle of the first generation of pollution controls, but the engineers proved them wrong. The engineers succeeded in reducing pollution to a rounding error.
Snidely Whiplash-style, the regulators shouted "Curses, foiled again!" and shook their fists at Detroit, vowing revenge like the cut-rate screen villains they are. They stopped talking about "pollution" because there was none left, and so began the business of "emissions."
Which is like toothpaste. You can measure a toothpaste that cleans your teeth. But a toothpaste that gets your teeth white? How do you define "white?" You can't, and there's no end to how "white" teeth can be.
Just like there's no end to the "emissions" your car can emit. See the current hand-wringing about particles of rubber that wear off your tires in normal use that these nuts want to consider "emissions."
Because pollution hasn't actually been a problem for decades. The purpose of these regulations has always been the same: to get the Common Man out of his private vehicle and onto the bus. The do-gooders in the government initially thought the auto industry wouldn't be able to overcome the hurdle of the first generation of pollution controls, but the engineers proved them wrong. The engineers succeeded in reducing pollution to a rounding error.
Snidely Whiplash-style, the regulators shouted "Curses, foiled again!" and shook their fists at Detroit, vowing revenge like the cut-rate screen villains they are. They stopped talking about "pollution" because there was none left, and so began the business of "emissions."
Which is like toothpaste. You can measure a toothpaste that cleans your teeth. But a toothpaste that gets your teeth white? How do you define "white?" You can't, and there's no end to how "white" teeth can be.
Just like there's no end to the "emissions" your car can emit. See the current hand-wringing about particles of rubber that wear off your tires in normal use that these nuts want to consider "emissions."
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