I'll interpose a few comments. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Neoteric Biofuels Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, if someone wants a work truck to tow a bunch of cattle with or haul > a ton of fuel into the bush, it's been a long while since they've been able > to do it with a North American half-ton. 20 years or so, right? You're right. I only gave an extreme example. There are many jobs that can be done around a farm or logging job, that a 1/2 ton pickup can do. There are also many that they are too light for. I guess in my mind, a pickup is a work vehicle. Many of our Metro brethren use them for personal transportation, and occasional use for weekends pulling a boat or hauling snowmobiles. Perhaps the fuel-efficiency standards could be raised for 1/2 ton pickups. There should be a line drawn there? 3/4 and heavier should NOT be reduced in their utility function.
> These things > have been getting progressively lighter for a long time. Standards applied > to light trucks that are really passenger vehicles with room for a couple > mountain bikes and few sheets of plywood, are not going to have much of an > effect on the real work truck market - those people have been buying 1 tons > (or topped up 3/4's) for a long time. I agree. Maybe we need a definition of 'light truck', It's my understanding that 1-ton and lighter are classified as 'light trucks'. > > If the proposed standards are applied to those heavier trucks, then I agree > that that's wrong. Go after the millions of "Costcoburbia" pickups, and > leave the real work trucks alone so they are still reaosnably capable and > do not wear out prematurely. Junkyards full of 10 year old trucks on their > way to crushers are not an eco-efficient solution. Although they are an inexpensive source of body parts for those of us who use the heavier, longer-lasting versions, that tend to get bent occasionally. My concern is that the regulations will force those of us who use light trucks, to be forced to use heavy trucks to do a job a light truck is currently capable of doing more efficiently. I don't need a 10-wheeled Mack truck to carry 6 bales of hay, or pickup 6-100 pound bags of salt from the farm supply store. I shouldn't need to use a Peterbilt with a 48 foot Lowboy trailer to haul a 10,000 pound skid-steer loader. > > Edward Beggs > www.biofuels.ca Motie ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
