It's time to ditch catalytic converters, save fuel, cut costs, reduce CO2 emissions, extend vehicle life.
Catalytic converters were good for the 1970s [maybe].
There are better ways to avoid having dirty air such as smaller vehicles with lean burn engines. Less diesel, more gasoline/LPG/CNG/methanol/ethanol with fewer aromatics and muck in the fuel. More traffic control systems built into vehicles for faster vehicle flow, photo-electronic road tolls to optimize road capacity and flow rates. Road design improvements.
In NZ, traffic management people are spending a fortune to make traffic flow worse, not better, increasing costs and pollution. It's just more of the hell of living in NZ with the mad people running the place. Wheturangi Road, near us, is right now in the process of being dug up to put large speed bumps in it. It's a perfectly good road and I rarely see anyone speeding. If they are, it's a good chance to raise some revenue by catching them and fining them $10,000.
They say the are "Making the roads safer for children". In fact, they are lulling children into a false sense of security which will cause children to be killed when they are out of the "safe" area. Molly-coddled simpleton children are not safe children, they are incapable children.
Spoiling life for everyone else is absurd, but that's what passes for "thinking" in NZ government these days. The people wrecking things have to travel on the roads too, so they obviously like to travel slower, probably to spend less time at work and less time at home; sitting in their cars with the radio on, listening to talk-back radio callers moaning about traffic must be their perverted sadistic pleasure in life.
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