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To: cosmicforce who wrote (85796)	8/19/2000 1:36:46 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Clever, but inadequate. One cannot show that it has much of an effect, either way. But it is not a rule of democratic decision- making that the good be provable, only that the majority surmise it. On the basis, you would have to convince them that it would likely do more harm than good.......

To: cosmicforce who wrote (85796)	8/19/2000 1:55:51 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Along these lines, when the NOX devices were retrofitted on cars in 70's, I had a VW that I meticulously tuned and whose exhaust, if not quite pure was well below the pollution standards of the day for that vehicle. The State of California forced exhaust recyclers on all cars even though the engineering studies showed while this reduced NOX, it frequently caused large increases in other pollutants. But NOX was the pollutant of the day, and it was so. My poor VW never recovered. Its formerly ash-white exhaust pipe became sooty and I lost power. The CO emissions actually increased. As did HC emissions. But at least it complied with the law. And all those emission testers got paid. Later, with better sensors and engineering, EGR, as it is known now, is actually part of a suite of devices that work together. The fuel injection, mass flow sensors and other power increasing technologies were countered with pollution reducing technologies to give a comprehensive solution. Wouldn't it have been better just to phase it in?