{"id":94883,"date":"2018-10-16T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=94883"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:27:19","slug":"volvo-trucks-emissions-scam-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2018\/10\/volvo-trucks-emissions-scam-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Trucks emissions scam collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder Chinese-owned Volvo trucks is trying <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2018\/08\/smoking-gun-emails-show-volvo-trucks-initiated-epas-rigged-testing-of-glider-trucks\/\">to kill off the American glider truck industry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-16\/volvo-trucks-warns-of-material-cost-on-faulty-emissions-part\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-1.33.40-PM-728x437.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-1.33.40-PM-728x437.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-1.33.40-PM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-1.33.40-PM-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-1.33.40-PM.png 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here’s the regulatory scam in a nutshell as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-16\/volvo-trucks-warns-of-material-cost-on-faulty-emissions-part\">reported<\/a> by Bloomberg: “Volvo has sold about 700,000 trucks in North America and Europe since 2014, when stricter emissions rules were implemented.” <\/p>\n<p>Volvo and the rest of the new truck industry supported Obama EPA efforts to tighten emissions standards so that they could sell more expensive trucks. <\/p>\n<p>But the existence of the small US glider truck industry posed an existential threat to this swampy regulator-rentseeker scam. Despite new trucks costing about 33% more, real-world new truck emissions are about the same as glider truck emissions — and neither is a threat to public health or the environment. <\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that Cummins — another new truck company that is part of the scam — just <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2018\/07\/new-truck-emissions-scandal-cummins-recalls-500000-trucks-for-faulty-nox-emissions-control\/\">recalled 500,000 trucks<\/a> because its expensive emissions control junk doesn’t work either.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these failures, the new trucks industry is lobbying the EPA is further tighten NOx standards so that they can raise the prices of their junk trucks even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder Chinese-owned Volvo trucks is trying to kill off the American glider truck industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Volvo Trucks emissions scam collapsing","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[377,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-epa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-oGn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94893,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94883\/revisions\/94893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}