I spoke to a trucker about this and took some picture of the stuff
needed to clean the carcinogenic particulates from the exhaust. The
World Health Organization has deemed diesel exhaust hazardous to your
health. Millions of old diesel powered cars are upping the cancer
rate in Europe.

The estimated cost of retrofitting a truck is $15,000. The cost of
the Diesel Exhaust Fluid is $15 a gallon. Many Cal companies are
selling their current trucks out of state. Many small truckers are
going out of business in California. You must have one of these Air
Resources Board stickers on your truck wind shield before you can
enter California.

This has increased the cost of shipping in California.

A large turbo compound rotary Wankel would make a great truck engine
due to it's robust and cannon proof design. There is no doubt in my
mind it would last as long as a diesel engine and get equal or better
MPG. Fuel price per gallon would be less. It would weigh less than a
diesel as well increasing the payload. It would also be smoother.
Large size is no problem. Some of these huge Ingersoll Rand engines
are rumored to have run for 20,000 hours.

I am probably way ahead of my time on this one as well.

Paul Lamar

Had a few trucks in a fleet with MB diesels and this watermelon stuff on.
Because these trucks only worked hard for a few minutes at a time (city
work) the exhaust filters would clog up. To blow the filters out we had to
leave them running at 1800 rpm at the end of the day. Management of course
didn't want to pay drivers on overtime to watch an engine roar for an hour
or two so they were just left like that overnight. It did give us a warm
fuzzy feeling to know that we were part of the solution to the global
warming crisis  :)

John

IMHO The global warming is a phony issue. The world has heated up and cooled down for millions
of years.

Carcinogenic diesel exhaust is something else.

Paul Lamar

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