PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - Daimler will pay $2.2 billion to settle it's US diesel emissions cheating scandal

pawoSD · #8 08-14-2020, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by tjts1

I'm not sure why you think it's a sham. The 8,000lb gas pickup outputs far less particulates and NOx than even the smallest 4cyl diesel. Blaming our regulations for Mercedes emissions cheating is a bit like blaming the rape victim.

Not blaming the regulations for the cheating. Gas engines do produce particulates, I can get more soot off the average gas vehicle's exhaust pipe than I can from my GLK250.

That huge pickup also pumps 4-5x the carbon dioxide into the air as a high mpg diesel. In the grand scheme of things, that massive extra amount of CO2, plus just the enormous waste of a finite resource in general, will have the greater negative impact.

A couple container ships chugging along the ocean likely pollutes more than just about every MB diesel in the country put together....but you don't see them with DPF systems forced upon them.