If the California EPA gets its way, the race track may be the only place you can enjoy your diesel truck!

It seems that the California EPA has it out for your diesel powered truck. Thanks to an observational study they conducted that loosly associates diesel emissions with human deaths, they plan to introduce much stricter diesel exhaust emission regulations which could cost all of us a lot of money, and the freedom to enjoy our vehicles, for no real reason.

The problem that I have with the California EPA, and the Air Research Board (CARB) is twofold. First, the scientific methods they use as a basis for their recomendations simply stink, and second the scientist, "Dr." Tran, who is an employee of CARB and wrote the paper CARB is using as a basis for these new regulations, has evidently misrepresented his education. 

As an example of my first point, CARB states that deaths and air pollution have both decreased in their state, so the association must be because the air is cleaner. While on the surface this seems to make sense, the association hasn't been tested by real, cause-and-effect science. Using the same associative methods CARB has used, I can also make the statement that since obesity has risen (across the country, not just California), and air quality is better, that better air quality must lead to obesity. While this sounds far-fetched, I have used the same methodology that CARB has. 

And I'm not alone in thinking CARB's science is bunk. Several highly educated (yes, real PhD's "Dr." Tran) and concerned scientists including Dr.'s Enstrom and Malkan of UCLA, and Dr. Phalen of UC Irvine (among others) have submitted papers requesting that the California EPA postpone and reassess CARB diesel regulations until the potential HEALTH RISKS and FINANCIAL IMPACT can be fully evaluated using modern, cause-and-effect, scientific methods. It is these scientists opinion that real science will reveal that CARB is wrong, and their recomendations will only cost money, not improve the health of California's citizens.

And don't think this only involves California, many states have considered, and are currently considering adopting the CARB regulations so the impact could be nation wide.

I encourage you to check my research, and please let me know your opinion of emissions regulations in general. My personal opinion is that CARB is after our cars, our trucks, and our hobby, and I'd rather them stay out of my business until they can prove using real science that my diesel truck is killing people.