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Originally Posted by jross
The particulate matter trap is between $10k-$15k per truck. As to lifecycle analysis - that's way beyond legislators. It's very energy intensive to destroy and old truck and build a new one, but the issue is the immediate "gains" in air quality. What this basically is a very cute way of moving the worst of our emissions elsewhere (realistically, China) - which ignores that we're all sort of sharing the same atmosphere anyways. It's like how California purchases electricity...
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Why is that people who don't want this to happen- ie trucking companies, environmentalists, regular people will not address or raise this point? Are we so duped by the enviro-nazi's that we become blind to the real goal?