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So my mother in-law felt the need to upgrade her lawnmower and gave me her old one to take out to the cabin. It's a LawnBoy, two stroke, with aluminum deck and has been in continuous use by her since 1963. I decided to fire her up to make sure it worked before I hauled it out to the lake. Long story short, it never made it out to the lake. I'm now pushing a 44 year old lawnmower around the house and my #1 son is demoted to the Honda. What ever happened to the american manufacturing base that gave us products like this?
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Tree huggers outlawed the 2-stroke years ago....
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You don't have to be a "tree hugger" to see the problems of two-stroke cycle engines. The old models were pathetically dirty, spewing all sorts of unburned fuel and oil out of the exhaust. I don't like breathing ozone any more than you.
But aren't there still two-stroke cycle marine engines? A few years ago they still had them. Not cheap, mind you. |
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I don't see how my little two stroke lawnmover run for 1 hr. a week has any relevance on anything when compared to leviathan SUV's or highway tractors (whose cargo should move by rail). That's the problem when you base your emissons control on percentage rather than volume, you have the gov going after lawn mowers and weedwackers while I can drive my 8 mpg Scout across the country with impunity.
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I'm not suggesting that everything move by rail, but if you made the trucking industry pay it's own way you'd find economics push more transport onto rail where available. You'd have to find someone with a death wish to try to implement it though. Black55 is right.
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besides how do you think every single thing you buy at the store gets there?
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I have no problem with trucks delivering goods from a railhead but can't understand the economics of shipping goods across country by truck. The underlying principles of the two make rail the obvious choice where possible. You can't compare the efficiency of tons moved by rail vs. road. When private enterprise (mines, etc.) needs to move tons on their own dime they build rail. Only when they have access to a subsidised road system does trucking become an option. Jorg |
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I forget exact figures in what they pay per mile in taxes etc....even when parked. My uncle once told me and its an ungodly ammount. As he once owned a fleet of Dump trucks outside Baltimore MD. He is now deceased.
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Fact is Trucks are the only practicle way to move goods to market.
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Maybe not for driving across the country, however.
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