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messy said:
Companies that make cars.
If you look at the financial interests threatened by environmental regulations, you will find the largest national corporations spending hundreds of millions against those regulations.
Their opposition falls under the phrase “fewer government regulations.”
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Catalytic converters have proven to be reliable and effective in reducing noxious tailpipe emissions. However, they also have some shortcomings in use, and also adverse environmental impacts in production:

  • An engine equipped with a three-way catalyst must run at the stoichiometric point, which means more fuel is consumed than in a lean-burn engine. This means approximately 10% more CO2 emissions from the vehicle.
  • Catalytic converter production requires palladium or platinum; part of the world supply of these precious metals is produced near Norilsk, Russia, where the industry (among others) has caused Norilsk to be added to Time magazine's list of most-polluted places.[33]
  • Pieces of catalytic converters, and the extreme heat of the converters themselves[34], can cause wildfires, especially in dry areas [35][36][37]
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Catalytic converters have proven to be reliable and effective in reducing noxious tailpipe emissions. However, they also have some shortcomings in use, and also adverse environmental impacts in production:

  • An engine equipped with a three-way catalyst must run at the stoichiometric point, which means more fuel is consumed than in a lean-burn engine. This means approximately 10% more CO2 emissions from the vehicle.
  • Catalytic converter production requires palladium or platinum; part of the world supply of these precious metals is produced near Norilsk, Russia, where the industry (among others) has caused Norilsk to be added to Time magazine's list of most-polluted places.[33]
  • Pieces of catalytic converters, and the extreme heat of the converters themselves[34], can cause wildfires, especially in dry areas [35][36][37]
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Look up...and breathe.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Good trade off
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If you are from Southern California and you like going outside, you are thankful every day that the huge economic interests opposed to environmental regulations were thwarted by our state government’s concern for its people in requiring that cars be equipped with catalytic converters. Drastically reduced our smog.
 
messy said:
If you are from Southern California and you like going outside, you are thankful every day that the huge economic interests opposed to environmental regulations were thwarted by our state government’s concern for its people in requiring that cars be equipped with catalytic converters. Drastically reduced our smog.
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Thwarted by our states concerns? You want to expand on that?
 
messy said:
If you are from Southern California and you like going outside, you are thankful every day that the huge economic interests opposed to environmental regulations were thwarted by our state government’s concern for its people in requiring that cars be equipped with catalytic converters. Drastically reduced our smog.
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How much carbon and co2 do 22 million illegal mother fuckers produce?
 
messy said:
If you are from Southern California and you like going outside, you are thankful every day that the huge economic interests opposed to environmental regulations were thwarted by our state government’s concern for its people in requiring that cars be equipped with catalytic converters. Drastically reduced our smog.
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It was a tradeoff.
 

Ocasio-Cortez Goes After Tesla: ‘We Got No Return On Our Investment’
December 3rd, 2018
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Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at her midterm election night party in New York City, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the electric car company Tesla Monday night for failing to give American taxpayers a return on their “investment.”

Ocasio-Cortez made the jab during a climate change town hall organized and hosted by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Likens Private Health Insurance To ‘Death Panels’)




“When we as a public choose to invest in new technologies, we deserve a return on that investment,” Ocasio-Cortez said while talking about the broader Progressive agenda to fund renewable and green technology research with taxpayer money.

“For far too long, we gave money to Tesla, we gave money to a ton of people and we got no return on our investment that the public made in creating technologies, and it’s about time we get our due because it’s the public that funded and financed a lot of innovative technologies,” Ocasio Cortez continued.


Ocasio-Cortez did not specify where Tesla has failed.
 
Sheriff Joe said:

Ocasio-Cortez Goes After Tesla: ‘We Got No Return On Our Investment’
December 3rd, 2018
Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez_Reuters-e1543891592482.jpg

Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at her midterm election night party in New York City, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the electric car company Tesla Monday night for failing to give American taxpayers a return on their “investment.”

Ocasio-Cortez made the jab during a climate change town hall organized and hosted by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Likens Private Health Insurance To ‘Death Panels’)




“When we as a public choose to invest in new technologies, we deserve a return on that investment,” Ocasio-Cortez said while talking about the broader Progressive agenda to fund renewable and green technology research with taxpayer money.

“For far too long, we gave money to Tesla, we gave money to a ton of people and we got no return on our investment that the public made in creating technologies, and it’s about time we get our due because it’s the public that funded and financed a lot of innovative technologies,” Ocasio Cortez continued.


Ocasio-Cortez did not specify where Tesla has failed.
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She should apply the same reasoning to Free education and health care for all. In the meantime, she gets a star.
 
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