Read an article not to long ago in a trade magazine talking about all of the emission related crap being forced on the mfgs raising their costs, and ultimately being passed on to consumers driving the cost of eveything out of reach for many. The premise behing the article was the HUGE, ONGOING, cost of trying to make EVERY vehicle, etc meet such stringent emission requirements, and how wasteful it was basically doing it all one engine at a time. Not to mention the numerous, ongoing changes being demanded for the mfgs to meet the ever more stringent requirements formulated at a time when the technology to meet them hadn't even been discovered yet.
At the same time, given technology already available, there is a much easier way to reduce a much larger amount of 'emission' related gasses. Basically instead of every vehicle being it's own little 'emissions' plant on wheels, that there be large plants built to pull in those emissions and treat them all together. Just like there are storm drains running beside the roads to catch water, and sewer mains to carry waste to various centralized treatment areas, emissions could be done the same way. basically have the plants designed with huge vacuum pump drawing in emissions from grates at place like intersections, etc where vehicles are most likely to be setting at an idle and creating the most emissions, as well as at other strategic places along the various highway systems.
I can't remember any hard numbers but the study done came to the conclusion that a system of plants like this would capture a sizable amount more emission gasses than the individual vehicles themselves could ever hope to. Not to mention by doing it at a cental location certain of the gasses captured, or created in the treatment process would have commercial applications and could be sold to offset the cost of running the system. Sort of like they do now with the methane capture systems currently in use in old landfills around the country running generators and putting "free" power into the grid from what would otherwise be a 'greenhouse gas emission' that the EPA doesn't like. Not to mention that having the plants would also insure the reliability of the system because everything was better centralized and under control of a single 'controlling body' rather than having millions of individual vehicles needing constant inspection and upkeep and relying on John Q public to do it themsleves or through their mechanic........
I know what your asking about is just something to cut the cost of fuel, but this would have a impact on fuel right off the bat, and beyond that, the ripples through the economy caused by the cutting of expenses to the mfgs attempting to reach near impossible regulations on their products, etc, etc, etc, have the potential to be huge. Not to mention the fact that the air we breath would also have the potential to be cleaner than it is using the scheme the EPA currently uses to meet the existing goals.
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