Diesel, Dollars, And The EPA Rollback

The bunker jokes stop and the wrenches come out fast: we’re unpacking the EPA emissions rollback with a mechanic’s eye and a traveler’s wallet. If you run an RV, manage a small fleet, or just want your deliveries to arrive when it’s 20 below, this conversation puts the headlines in context. We trace how California standards ripple across the country, why SCR and DEF systems burn extra fuel to “save” fuel, and how ultra-low-sulfur diesel robbed pumps of lubricity and raised repair costs. You’ll hear the official EPA statement, then our take on what it could mean for trucks, power plants, and your monthly bills.

We go deep on diesel tech—staged injection, DPF regens, EGR, and the parts that fail first—then stack it against real-world use cases. Electric vans lose range in heat and cold, the grid strains when temperatures swing, and heavy-duty routes still favor diesel for reliability and energy density. This isn’t anti-EV; it’s pro-fit. Use electric where cycles and climates work, and sharpen combustion where it doesn’t. Engines have gotten radically cleaner through materials, controls, and timing—often without piling on hardware that breaks. The question is whether policy will now reward that smarter path instead of forcing expensive loops that don’t survive winter.

We also tackle the thorny stuff owners care about: whether deletes could become legal, what that means for warranties, and why you should box every part if you ever pull them. Expect pragmatic tips along the way—restoring lubricity in ULSD, managing regens, and keeping intake valves clean on GDI setups—so you can cut downtime while the rulebook keeps moving. If you buy, drive, fix, or depend on vehicles that keep the world moving, this is your field guide to the rollback’s promises and pitfalls.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Bunker Intro And Setup
• 1:11 Today’s Focus: EPA Emissions Rollback
• 2:24 Sponsor Message: Freedom Flag And Pole
• 2:24 Writing The Book And Show Update
• 4:16 Car-Guy Take On Emissions Overreach
• 5:07 California Standards And National Impact
• 6:03 Rolling Coal, Technology, And Reality
• 7:09 What The Rollback Doesn’t Say About Deletes
• 8:31 Diesel Tech: SCR, DEF, And Regens
• 10:40 Fuel Lubricity, Sulfur, And Pump Failures
• 12:08 RV Owners, Warranty Risks, And Deleting
• 14:25 MPG Math And Emissions Tradeoffs
• 16:17 Clean Air Act Questions And Power Plants
• 18:32 Cars Got Cleaner Without Extra Hardware
• 20:03 Policy Shifts And Industry Whiplash
• 24:31 Sponsor Message: Graith Care
• 27:18 EPA Administrator Clip And Reax
• 29:12 Hidden Diesel In Your Daily Life
• 31:40 EV Limits In Extreme Weather
• 34:32 Why Diesel Still Moves The World
• 37:54 Real-World Costs Of Emissions Systems
• 41:36 Legal Risks, Deletes, And Resale
• 45:38 EGR, GDI Soot, And Maintenance
• 48:31 Closing Thoughts, Book Update, And Thanks

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:09

Because we're recorded from deep inside the bubbles of a decommissioned missile silo. We bring the man, one single man, who wants to bring light to the darkness and dark to the lightness. Although he's not always right, he is always certain. So now, with security protocols in place, the protesters have been forced back behind the barricades and the blast doors are now sealed. Without further delay, let me introduce you to the host of Podcast, Mr. Tim Hutner.

SPEAKER_02: 0:43

Thank you, Sergeant at Arms. You can now take your post. The views and opinions expressed in this program are solely those of the individual and participants. These views and opinions expressed do not represent those of the host or the show. The opinions in this broadcast are not to replace your legal, medical, or spiritual professionals. Welcome to Hudcast 215 2026. Today's conversation, not about craziness here in Minneapolis, although it's pretty crazy. Luckily I've got this hidden underground bunker that I can stay within and mind my own business. However, we are going to talk about the emissions rollback. Now, I posted on my site, Hutcast on Facebook, about some stuff that you should probably read up on. Now, I shared this to a bunch of groups that rely on diesel emissions. RV groups, truck groups, car groups, you name it, I shared it there. So for Hutcast, let's have this EPA conversation about Trump's rollback. I'll be right back.

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SPEAKER_02: 2:24

Welcome back to Headcast.

SPEAKER_03: 2:26

Okay, people.

SPEAKER_02: 2:29

Yeah, it's been it's been a little bit. I've been kind of busy trying to get my book done, trying to do all that. And if anybody knows me, they know I'm not a typer, but I am a speaker. And it was easier for me to have a 90-hour podcast and dictate my book. Made it a lot easier. Made it a whole lot easier. Now I just gotta go back and fix all the discrepancies in certain things, like well when I say and I wanna in a question mark, and I wanna, and it screws it up in the book, so I gotta go back and redo it typing-y anyway. Yeah. Didn't expect that one. But hey, you know, can't make an arm without breaking some eggs, and I guess we're some eggs to break. So in my intro, kind of a thing this this week, I I posted on Facebook a video of Trump's uh EPA guy, or the EPA guy, or whoever he is at this point, you know, not changing it just weekly, about these emissions rollback. Now, being in the car business, I'm kind of a car guy, I'm kind of a diesel guy, I'm kind of an emissions guy. I've been an emissions guy since the mid-80s. So I've seen a couple of things come and go, including the diesel emissions, which was a snafu to any of you RVers out there. It's all fun and games till you get an RV and you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars trying to refit, re undo what the Obama administration has done to the catalyst and particulates, tier one, two, three, and four. We call them tiers. Yeah, how's that for some weird stuff? Okay, so so this guy gets on TV, which I posted, and I posted us a brief synopsis of what I thought about this as a car guy. And this emissions gig. You know, nobody wants bad air. Let's start out with that. Nobody wants bad water, no nobody wants that the going on in their in their world. Ever. I don't care if you're a left, a right, a center, a dim, it means absolutely nothing if you can't breathe or eat or sleep or yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 4:50

But this overreach that the EPA has been doing for the last since what, eight, oh nine is incredible. Now, here's a little background on some emissions. Some emissions that you know you may need to know.

SPEAKER_02: 5:07

First of all, California sets the bar. It's called California Bar, Cal Bar. They have bars one through four, bar bars one through five, emissions that even Minnesota tried to copy. And if you're going to be in a state where everybody in their left red mind are nuts and want to set the tone for the rest of the country, emissions related, and they can't even set the tone for the rest of their encampments or their weirdos or the whatever they want to do. I mean, hey, it's a free country. You want to live in a tent in California, knock yourself out. But who are they to tell the rest of us what we want? Now, I'm hearing you, I'm feeling the vibe through the through the microphone that, well, nobody wants bad. Okay, I get it, I get it. But you have to understand about certain things about internal combustion and engines. The more you can make materials technology work together, the less blow by, the less emissions, the less there's a whole lot more to it than just throw more fuel and roll coal out your diesel pipe. There's there's just there's just more to it. And in a nutshell, you have to kind of understand that, look, rolling coal is a choice. It's not a need. It's not an option you would probably want unless you want to run around and smoke protesters out down in Minneapolis, which would sign's kind of fun. Who's with me? We'll turn up the emissions and just really crank it out there and then we'll have all kinds of different problems, won't we? But anyway. California's setting this the standard, California bar. They decide they, not the federal government, they've turned it over to them and say, hey, you you should probably set a pretty standard bar. A high bar. And I think it was supposed to be 2025 or 20 something six-ish ish, if it was provided we were going to be under the Democratic rule yet again, that the emissions were supposed to be so light that you you you couldn't have a cow fart without uh breaking some law somewhere. That's how stupid this was. And I think there were some some some crazy people going after this. Cow fart emissions? I I've heard that too. I'm like, you can't you can't write this stuff, people. There's some people out there that are so far gone, left and right, oh don't get me wrong, left and right, that just don't get it.

SPEAKER_03: 7:46

And then there's the rest of us, somewhere in the center.

SPEAKER_02: 7:49

You ever heard the term left or right, somewhere in the middle of the center? And that's the that's where the truth lies. Yeah. That this is one of those deals. Now I listen to this guy speak, and I'm kind of hearing some buzzwords, I'm hearing some in-between words. Listen for yourself, tune into the Facebook site, and and and post an opinion. Because it really it's this is going to affect a lot of people. It affected a lot of us going into it, but they they kept giving it inches and inches and inches, and now we get it all taken away. Now, here's what you don't hear. You don't hear about being able to retrospect your fuel and emissions. It's not in there. Just because they rescinded the 2009 program doesn't mean that we can go out and strip our emissions, detune them, de-uptune them, whatever it is you want to do. But we need to find out what the rest of that is. And I've been hunting around. I can't find the policy. If someone sees that, certainly drop a link. I'd like to read what that really means. If you ever listen to this guy on on YouTube, he's uh he's called Whistlin Disel Diesel. He's kind of a he's kind of a weirdo, but hey, you know, he's a Diesel guy. You know, that's that's what those guys do. And he he seems like a good kid. But I think he likes to challenge and test authority every chance he gets. He's right now in some tax problems with the Ferrari he bought in Montana versus I don't know. If you watch this thing, Whistlin Diesel. Uh he's arrested again. Uh, he was let go he was arrested. He was pardoned by by Trump. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 9:34

But let's get back to the nuts and bolts of this. Now I'm a big RV here. I'm all over the country in my RV. All the new RVs. Mine's a 24 Tiffin.

SPEAKER_02: 9:46

And this thing is so choked down with emissions. My trucks are choked down. I've run a lot of diesel products. My cars are diesel.

SPEAKER_03: 9:56

And there's so much emissions that are on these things. Now, an emission system is called an SCR.

SPEAKER_02: 10:03

It's a it's a filter, it has a DEF solution in it, the particulates filter, the SCR system, has a injector for diesel, it has an injector for def. It has a an emissions pump for that, it has it has so much equipment. Now, again, mind you, back in the 80s when diesel is just poured raw fuel into a car, okay, I could get that. But with today's material technologies and the way they've cleaned it up so much, they could probably clean it by themselves. It's called homogenized fuel diesel injection. Homogenized. It's three points of injection. It's pre-pilot to wet the cylinders. It's the center burn, which is the crankshaft is in top, dead center. It fuels that one just a couple degrees before, so you can get your your compression in squirt. And then there's a homogenized at the second, the last end, is a third juice, just uh just to give it a uh a wetting for the next cylinder. Now, how many injection pumps have you heard of out in the world? These Bosch MP3s. All these injector pumps taken a hit. Because why? Because there's no more sulfur and fuel. There's no more lubricant to keep the diesels operating. Okay, now you have another issue on top of SCRs. All this stuff in your exhaust treatment that you had to maintain, hold, rub, feel, it's it's in it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03: 11:37

Now let's talk about the fuel. The the fuel itself has lubricity properties in it.

SPEAKER_02: 11:46

And when you take that sulfur out of the fuel, which makes your sulfur's a lubricant, it's a lubricant for diesel, they have these products called stiction products. You put them in the fuel, you jazz them up, life's good. It's supposed to run, it's supposed to take the place of where fuel used to take the fuel. On top of your SCRs, boy, I'll tell you. If you're an RVer, you should be really paying attention to this law. Because if you can delete that, I wouldn't blink in a moment to go find someone to do that for you. Now, remember, if you delete your emissions and you are still within some manufacturer's warranty, I would probably bet 99.999 to the tenth digit that you will get voided. I don't know if that even makes sense, because if I was a manufacturer and you had a pump problem, but your emissions were deleted, and it's not related to the two processes, I would say, hey, you saved me some time because now you can probably run a better fuel. You can have less fuel going through it, because again, on an SCR system, it uses diesel to regenerate that filter. Ain't no magic fluid besides the death fluid that keeps the the particulates down. It's the it's the diesel that goes in there and cooks into a sit mode, which directly puts diesel right into that filter. And now now guess what?

SPEAKER_03: 13:19

Yeah. You're burning more fuel. You're burning more fuel to be more fuel efficient. On what planet does that work?

SPEAKER_02: 13:30

Tiffin common six seven, got the redhead cylinders on it, uh fairly new, all the emissions crap. 24 a year it is. You're lucky to get eight, nine, nine if you're if you're really behaving, ten if you're just insanely got nothing to do all week besides drive. Now you shut off that g generation mode. You get rid of all that stuff. Can we see thirteen out of it? My last bus I got thirteen. It didn't have any emissions on it. That was a O three Freightliner FCS chassis with a commons zero emissions.

SPEAKER_03: 14:10

Thirteen? On a 38-foot rig? All day long, man. I'll take that. I'll take that in a heartbeat. No emissions to buy, no emissions to fix. Got zero death to put in it. And it ran really decently clean, untouched. From factory, day one. Now the Trump haters, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 14:36

You keep hating this guy while you do have her on your RV, pumping the blue blue Gula-aid, realizing that, hey, this guy was right. Now you can take it from Trump if you want to. Or from the EPA. Why don't you take it from a guy who works on this stuff for a living? Just focus on what we're telling you. And once you've deleted, it'll be the best coach you've ever had. Less breakdowns, and hope to God, let's hope to God.

SPEAKER_03: 15:03

That somebody put some sulfur back in the fuel. Because there's the win.

SPEAKER_02: 15:09

You do all that, you will have hundred thousand miles not touching an engine thing. Again, again. It used to be that way. Back in the day, guys on the road, they'd click 100, 150 off them and they go, oh, maybe I should check the air filter. Today, you can't put 150 miles on without doing def or doing a regen or your an annual regen people do. I I don't. I do a monthly regen. And guess what? Guess what I'm doing when I'm doing regen? I'm polluting up the area because this thing does nothing but smoke and smog up the area.

SPEAKER_03: 15:44

That's right. Smoke and smog in that pig. That's what emissions does for you.

SPEAKER_02: 15:55

Given the fact that the new engines have so much more involved. So much more tolerances, so many more material in engineering.

SPEAKER_03: 16:06

That's a win. I remember back when was it?

SPEAKER_02: 16:11

90s? 80s, 90s when Minnesota decided to follow Barr. California, oh yeah. Jesse Ventura was our governor. He's still trying to be relevant in the world, and personally I don't think he's relevant at all. But one thing he did do is he made the emission stations go away. Because he knew in his mind that it that was it was just insane to somebody talk to him.

SPEAKER_03: 16:38

Somebody got somebody got inside his head. It's politics. They went, hey, Jesse, pay attention to this.

SPEAKER_02: 16:47

I wish I knew what that guy was whispering in his ear because I'd I'd put him on the show and say, hey, let's have this conversation again now that the uh emissions are being rolled back. But again, people, don't get all you don't get all spiky here because there there's some things you don't know. There's some you can't can we uh delete as as diesel owners? How how do we do that? Because it's gonna come with a new program. It's gonna come with all your safety is shut off on your emissions because uh that's the way it was written back when they developed whatever it is you're driving.

SPEAKER_03: 17:24

I do like that though. I don't know about the legal obligation though.

SPEAKER_02: 17:31

What would what what's it gonna be if you if you do circumvent that? Because all your stuff is EPA Clean Air Act enabled. You look at the side of a truck and see this hologram of a sticker.

SPEAKER_03: 17:42

A placard. And it says Clean Air Act. Well, you know, I gotta think of if that was me.

SPEAKER_02: 17:52

I just got my coach about two years ago. And I can buy a coach without emissions, I'm selling mine. I'll go get another one. I'll go get one without emissions, because that's the huge savings. Fuel's a huge burn when you buy drive them big ones. Okay, I'm looking this up in the Clean Air Act. See, removing the legal obligations for it. Um yeah, he okay now. So he also, in this Clean Air Act, he is uh he is taking particulates out of the energy halted clean power 2.0, initiated reconstruction rollback regulations targeting the carbon pollutions from power plants. Okay, okay. Now you have my attention again. Will my power bill go down? Doubt it. And they're doing the same type of uh SCRs as a diesel engine, it's the same type of process. You inject a some people call it cow pea. It it isn't, it's uh it's a different type of solution, but it probably I don't know what I'm not from a farm anymore, but hey, it could work.

SPEAKER_03: 18:57

Now you what what happened to our power plants that we were gonna have that were gonna be nuclear? That was a pretty clean fuel. Of course, half-life was half a million years, so they say. That would have powered some things for us. But think about the power plant the actual guys who run carbon. That's kind of a big thing. I would really, really like to see where that goes.

SPEAKER_02: 19:25

And now can the can the power plants start to take it and and retrofit their plants to be something else? Because they weren't emissions related, then they got fitted for emissions, and if the car guys can't do it or the diesel guys can't do it, well what makes you think that they can do it with the Clean Air Act?

SPEAKER_04: 19:46

Hmm. I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_02: 19:51

Back in the 70s, you could take a car, run a pipe, run a flexible pipe, stick it inside your car, and asphyxiate yourself to death. It's just the way it was. I mean, it was so nasty, raw, rough carburetors, poor running, you you name it it was. And and you could probably do it pretty efficiently in a short time. Today's cars, you can put a pipe in there, suck on it for two days, other than have to go pee every five minutes, you'd you'd you'd be all you'd be out.

SPEAKER_03: 20:21

I mean, it it ain't the same stuff. It's that much cleaner. So cars have gotten a lot cleaner. Car car pref pre converters, catalytic converters have gotten cleaner.

SPEAKER_02: 20:37

And then all these if you can get an engine, think of it this way, if you get an engine to be that clean, running variable valve timing um multi-displacement engines, let's look at those guys. Or variable displacement engines. I've seen that there's a kind of a couple things coming out in those worlds. So the rod is six, five hundred long, great for your big block guys, and all of a sudden you're on the road and it's uh it's six two hundred long. That's six thousand two hundred six inch two hundred thousandths. It shortens up the rod, you get a shorter stroke, you get less compression. I mean, there's there's a number of things that can go. Just imagine that. Where where technology and computers have given us, other than emissions and smoke and chalk and all this crap that's on these cars. Here's one thing that was pretty interesting to notice. In the car business, back in the 80s, you had five million vacuum lines. Finding a leak was a problem. Most people didn't. If it ran, they run with it. But it made their car less efficient and more stinky and more EPA not friendly. Then the advent of fuel injection came along, cleaned them up dramatically.

SPEAKER_03: 21:53

We saw a lot less vacuum lines. A lot less sound noise. vacuum sellings. We just it was a lot less crap.

SPEAKER_02: 22:03

And then with the advent of variable variable cam timing, we've seen even less things. Because when you change cam timings, you change emissions. Ah the key. What do we got for vacuum lines? A couple of feedback tubes, a couple of uh vent tubes, you know, just minor things. So things that you should have to be there. So we went from the 80s having four miles of vacuum hoses on cars to 2025 where we have a vacuum line.

SPEAKER_03: 22:34

You know it's cleaner. Now do we really need converters?

SPEAKER_02: 22:40

Nitrogen of oxide, NOX? Is that what we're looking for? Is that what we're trying to get down? But you can change NOX with the verbal timing.

SPEAKER_03: 22:49

You can change a lot. There's knock sensors on diesel too. It's a it's an O2 sensor made by Bosch. It's a it looks like an O2 sensor. Yeah. Wow. This is a huge thing in the car business. This is huger than huge.

SPEAKER_02: 23:07

And just imagine where this is going to end up well at least until the next administration. I sure hope Vance takes a run at this because I think he's a shoe in for the next spot. He'll continue some of these nonsense things and keeping them away and blah okay ho ho I just opened this up. It says exempted coal plants granted exemption to nearly 70% of coal-fired plants from rules limiting mercury and other toxin pollutions. Okay, so there's they still have some exempted coal plants. Requirements for oil and gas operators to reduce methane pollution by January 2027. A move estimated to add pollutants to 25 million cars. Yeah okay I've seen that one halted Clean Air Act initiated to reconsider the rollback of regulations targeting carbon through pollution power plants. Yeah but you just read that one oh this there's stuff all over the web it's going crazy this is going crazy imagine imagine a world I can't begin to tell you what what is the next part is gonna be and for the guys who who know this you know I th I was sitting at the lunch table with the guys and we're all car guys and you know we always hear this maybe sorta kinda sorta stuff. Uh it's a whisper it's a trip you can't trust mainstream media oh they're gonna do this they're gonna do that and now they they actually did one.

SPEAKER_03: 24:48

This is it they made this happen. Holy cow I'm just um I'm flabbergasted it's been a while since I done show and I thought you know this is kind of the real thing for us in the world now imagine a world where we can save trillions of dollars annually let's talk about that in the next segment let's talk about what what runs on diesel how do you get your products how do you get your lighting how do you get your nuclear energy to to a certain point yeah let's see what we got here.

SPEAKER_02: 25:31

Oh 23 minutes yep 23 minutes we're into this let's get you back in a minute here because I I really want to I want to talk to you about how things happen in diesel world so for Hotcast standby I will be right back the current healthcare system is not meeting the needs of real people people are demanding better better care better options and want results. So Garethcare has launched and is advocating for those in the US and internationally as people are realizing the controlled system has not been there for them. If you want your own independent advocate that is not controlled by big corporations call or text and enroll today to get your advocate for your needs serving all ages. Or any healthcare needs you might have, you matter. Here's how you get started www.garethcare.com that is G-R-A-I-T-H-C-A-R-E dot com. Call Gareth Care direct at 469 864 7149 call or text the questions to HealthcareSocks and get an advocate with Gareth Care. 4698 mention Hutcast and you will get an additional 10% discount on your first advocacy bundle. The staff at Gareth Care will take care of you. Remember mention Hutcast and get that extra 10% off your first bundle of time and this is all brought to you from Gareth Fair today I'm pleased to make the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S.

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history the Environmental Protection Agency is initiating 31 historic actions to fulfill President Trump's promise to unleash American energy revitalize our auto industry restore the rule of law and give power back to the states EPA will be reconsidering many suffocating rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy and cost Americans trillions of dollars our actions include the Biden administration's deeply flawed Clean Power Plan 2.0 Mercury and air toxic standards Quad OBC Particulate matter 2.5 light medium and heavy car and truck rules knee shaps and the so-called social cost of carbon to advance cooperative federalism EPA will partner with states that were universally rejected by the last administration's good neighbor rule among many other actions today's momentous day also includes the 2009 endangerment finding along with all actions that rely on it. I've been told the endangerment finding is considered the holy grail of the climate change religion for me the U.S. Constitution and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed no exceptions today the Green News scam ends as the EPA does its part to usher in the golden age of American success. Our actions will lower the cost of living by making it more affordable to purchase a car, get your home and operate a business. Jobs will be created especially in the U.S. auto industry and our nation will become stronger for it. From the campaign trail to day one and beyond President Trump has delivered on his promise to unleash energy dominance and lower the cost of living we at EPA will do our part to power the great American comeback welcome back podcast yeah it's been kind of a thing these days isn't it all the stuff going on all the madness what I just played for you was the introduction to what is on the official EPA website.

SPEAKER_02: 29:40

Now this guy I told you when we got back from the break that we were going to talk about what diesels go into, what runs on fuel, etc but I wanted you to hear firsthand I put it between the show segments so you could understand what I was coming from. First of all I'd make the definition so you could understand what and why and then I wanted to play this from you from their dire again again from their EPA website. Now the the administrator this guy this guy's pretty spot on and I'll tell you what he's got it this guy named Lee Zeldon Z-E-L-D-I-N puts it out there black and white no in between no bias no attitude no okay I mean that's the way I saw it at least you you you listen for yourself and you make your decisions chime in on the Facebook site on Hutcast Facebook and then we're gonna go to part two of this here deal we've talked about what we've talked about the systems how it works when it works there's a lot kind of going on but you gotta stop and think about what happens when you depend on this that you don't even know you're depending on it. What I mean by that is with the popularity of getting stuff delivered to you Instacart Amazon TikTok shop what whatever it is whatever your favorite shopping venue is because a lot of people work from home they don't like to go out in public they don't like to be iced they don't like to whatever that is they don't like to do it. I'm I'm I'm a hermit I gotta admit it you know how else could I sit in my underground bunker and bunker away but you need to stop and think about this what they're doing is implementing a clean clearer highway not cleaner fuel not cleaner forget about all that stuff let let's let's look at the big picture what are they going to do with this what do you what do you see in your daily lives? If you're a prime customer you get to see prime rates go down because there's less fuel cost, there's less emissions. What comes in these trucks? Well they ain't pulling these trucks with C and G natural gas because it really don't work. And when it's 20 below let's talk about how all these big companies who had propane based trucks that couldn't even get out of their own way because the tanks are frozen what really works? Diesel. Diesel works nine times out of ten. Actually nine point nine times out of ten because they got some anti-gelling properties in them and and they've again they're science the material science has gone such a long way so that in mind and I hate using the word so you have diesel trucks hauling your product to a DC they get separated they get adjusted they're put into a queue whatever the Amazon process is Google it look it up and then it goes into another vehicle well you see these Amazon guys running around these vans got these halo lights around the headlights and they're all electric and eha problem when it was 30 below again what happened? Oh the batteries can't handle the temperature change so therefore they become about 60% efficient. Now you take that 60% charge rate on a battery on a station wherever that is they're 60% less efficient but they took the same amount of power to charge. So you got to look at the compounding failure of an electric vehicle in in a 20 below climate 22 Fahrenheit not Celsius I don't know what that is in metric like 6,000 billion below zero I don't even know but you get my point you have a battery that can't produce long enough with a saturated charge system full up takes the same amount of power to charge takes six, seven hours, sometimes more to charge this battery to peek it off before you go on your delivery route with Amazon in these stupid looking vans I guess I don't care what they look like as long as they're dropping off my stuff. And everybody wants to pound their chest on clean air better this better that but yet the coal plants are producing that much more energy to try and compensate for the temperature well in the cold climate world of things which we've learned in our hydrogen days, the hydrogen interface vehicles that it's all great and fine if you lived in a climate that had a a decent temperature. Now we have temperatures in the below zeros let's go down south into Florida and California where they have hot, Arizona hot What do you think the efficiency of those batteries are then? Because batteries they don't like a too hot condition they don't like a too cold condition. But somewhere in the middle is the diesel guys. If it really worked why aren't OTR over the road guys running nothing but electric trucks that was again was another agenda that the 09 Obama era started pushing. We're gonna be vehicle less fuel less everything's electric remember Joe Biden doing that we're gonna do this electric someone passed me that ice cream cone we're gonna we're gonna do this electric. Everything's electric we're gonna do the mandate and everybody jumped on board all these people that we just want oh we got to do this now. Want to listen to the political climate of what really works in the world not what should be but was what was politically correct if if it was really good we have a a number plant number five it was used to be the ranger plant Ford Ranger plant in town here and they jumped on the wagon hook line and sinker everything's electric we're gonna do this we're gonna shut the plant down and convert to something I don't know if it didn't work plant failed again and then Magic Delicious oh Biden's on the road he can't do it Joe Biden's on the road he can't do it they stopped talking about electric and I I I would imagine for the manufacturers it was a big sigh of relief to hear someone else say it didn't work move on because all that engineering put into stuff that just what a waste again nothing ventured nothing gained I would imagine we learned a lot about stuff electric temperature coefficients of electricity how can it work what you know there's a there's a ton of stuff but what we really learned again is that diesel was king again fossil fuels were king again cars are running and starting when it's 20 below static minus 60 wind they're still starting electric vehicles can't go far they they they limit out oh we got a battery temperature problem we gotta have a we gotta turn a heater on to heat the batteries to make your car go. Again that's that just doesn't make any sense. I ain't gotta turn a fuel heater on in my unleaded 87 octane car to start not even once at most diesels they have a plug in sure that's only because you gotta gotta get them started you gotta get the heat in the cylinder somehow so they heat up the coolant every time you want to heat something when it's minus 70 below it's always a win oil circulates better gets to the rods and mains better your cam journals are good they're oiled or lubricated. And and why why if you can plug it in to keep them lubricated nice to turn the heater on. You don't need that at minus 10 but minus 20 and minus 70 you probably would be smart to plug it in so your truck is coming in it's loaded with all kinds of stuff that people buy. Your food is shipped by diesel all your main cargo is shipped by diesel everything in a truck is shipped by diesel. Your people coming into town on the MTC bus, the train in which you rode in on from North Star Connection up to down is diesel have you really thought about really what you've been doing with diesel? Look around you if you're in the you listen to me in your car, count how many diesel vehicles are around you one in front of you behind one? You plow your roads with diesel Now mind you the Joe Biden administration decided to put this in act you're gonna go diesel and fuelist and blah blah blah and and everybody drank that cool it except the guys who knew better. Can't work won't work you can't plow with electric trucks you can build one sure heck they built an electric vehicle to go on the moon so you can drive around because they couldn't walk with their limited air supply packs uh on the Apollo series. So they built a car. General Motors uh built one of those cars electric what else are you gonna do? There's no air and what you're done you leave it there. Forty million 40 million dollar buggy left up top just I hope it's still sitting there becoming cool someday to go get it.

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Hey we did this heck I'd see I'd go to a check that out if it was at a space museum forty million miles away times two over decades of time with no atmosphere how how would that work?

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I wonder if it'd still work. Will the batteries still be any good or do they have a solar charger what what is that so Diesel really fossil fuels is really king now you gotta get past the hyperbole of the narcissist you know who he is Mr Trump I'm not a I'm I'm a Trumper but not a Trumper. I believe in his policies but I don't believe in some of the ways in which he acts but you know what? The non-politician is making shit happen as it should have been.

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Don't give me lip service just do it. That's what we hired him for. Get it done because what makes sense isn't making sense anymore because we're else we're we're running to somebody else's agenda. Hey we're gonna do this who is the people teaching O Biden how fossil fuels work in what makes sense.

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Now to be fair both sides I did hear a s just some smart of smart out of Ob Obama one day and he talked about air pressure in the tires. It was just a it was a cue point but it's still he it it made a lot of sense because he's right and anybody who works in cars knows that tire pressure is king just like diesel's king fuel fossil fuels are king. Keep them filled up he says as little as five pounds can create a difference. He's absolutely right five pounds is a lot of difference on a tire that's why you keep them all the same other than that I think that's the one of the only things he ever said that made sense to me only because it probably wasn't his words whatever that is So people friends listeners we we don't have a better solution right now. When everything's coming in on truck on diesel when everything's getting thrown into Amazon in in in internal combustion engines when everything is it's hard to beat that it's really really hard to beat that and until we have a technology that is so far superior to making stuff happen. Not not unlike brown's gas or hydrogen hydrogen also requires propane to make if you're talking about a PEM system hydrogen a little something I know about because your strudely hotcast happens to have a couple of patents out in the world and one of them is hydrogen fuel replacement Yeah hydrogen H H O2 Brown's gas. So I've studied a little bit of this fuel thing. Working in the industry for the last 45-50 years I I guess I I might have something to say about it.

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Don't let these guys horn swaggle you into believing that everything has to be cutting edge late gonna work diesel gas electric let's go with what works let's give the automakers let's give the engine builders the internal combustion engine guys let's give a let's give them a break and say look we know what things gotta be cleaner.

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We know we want better mileage and mileage will come if you just get rid of the diesel particulates that's an automatic now how do we make them clean they did that by taking that sulfur out just like I was telling you earlier in the segment sulfur's king to lubricity then what do we do next? What do we do if we actually get another I don't know six miles per gallon out of your Tiffin motorhome or off off your holiday rambler or whatever it is you drive six miles per gallon because you're not running deaf because you're not regenerating with raw diesel fuel. And how many repairs can you save by not having your Bosch injector pump being hammered by non-lubricity fuel again and again. We all seen that we all seen that bulletin it's all been all over the news everybody wants to sue GM Borden Chrysler for a Bosch pump they put in it wasn't Bosch's fault I I would I would guarantee you that if they put sulfur back in the fuel or some some replacement to sulfur that you wouldn't have a pump problem on the planet.

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If you're non-diesel guys. What it takes to work on a diesel money-wise is insanely stupid.

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And and I'm gonna say that as as as a car guy. It's so insane insanely stupid that I can put a motor in a standard four-cylinder car for what it takes to replace the fuel system on any light duty truck. Light duty being one ton and under if it was a diesel.

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I can't put a motor in a car for what it takes to change the injectors or pump on a light duty diesel engine.

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Duramax, power stroke, comments, doesn't matter. It's all stupid money. And then the talent of the staff behind doing it. Some people take their cabs off, float the cab in the air, drop the truck on the ground, and do all the changing without having to reach over the hood all day for eight, ten hours. That's labor. That's time. That's money material. I tell you what, you paid one diesel bill, you'd get that feeling.

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All because we want to say we want to be cleaner in theory that's kind of a thing.

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All these contractors now I see contractors coming all the time. They always had diesel trucks. They pull better more power they get better mileage until the Obama years. Now suddenly we're in the tier two we're getting into tier three they want to get into tier four choke choke choke. Destroy destroyed destroyed now these contractors who were all diesel diesel diesel are going to a gas truck. Yeah it doesn't pull as good but I'm not spending 5000 a year on maintenance on a pig and I'm again I'm being facetious 50 grand could be more could be less more than likeness can be less especially if you have problems big truck I I don't do enough big truck to know I know I do everything up to class six. Class seven and eight's kind of tractor world we can we kind of have some crossover systems but not like the big trucks do. I can't even imagine what they were my tow truck is a class six and that's a KW with a the pack guard motor in it. And I've had nothing but problems with that emission system. To the point where the dealer's like this the dealer says there's 2200 miles on this truck. There's a problem with the deaf system. Dealer says you don't use it enough it's not under warranty. Well let's try this story again. Imagine what I said to the dealer at this point. Well you can play that game or you can have somebody with some intelligence who's going to contact all these three letter agencies and say look you're not warrantying your product at this because you say I don't use it enough. Well after that conversation was ended the the dealer reached out to the manufacturer manufacturer called me back and says oh the dealer was probably a little wrong at that and we're going to take care of things. So yeah no kidding you are going to take care of things imagine all that energy spent on that when it could have been just a better fuel cleaner fuel. All you tree huggers are going to roll over in your graves when you start hearing this stuff come out I would advise you guys to dig into this if there's a way to delete legally I would tell you to hands down make that happen at any expense especially if you're full timers. If you're full time people out there in your RV oh heck yeah heck yeah all day long they will probably disable all your secondary and primary fuel sources for the deaf system they'll take you I don't I don't know how they do it. I mean I would do it that way and I would shut off all my um deaf volution systems def injectors def EGTs and then I would reprogram the main computer to operate like a normal computer but again be aware if you have a warranty on this and they say any tampering of emissions they will use every excuse to get out of fixing your truck if something else was to happen. So now you have to decide in the fuel usage and the fixing of this emissions crap, is it worth not getting a warranty? You might say yeah at the end of your warranty but you might not say yeah at the beginning of your warranty or it just depends on how much trouble you have like on my tow truck it's going away but I still have warranty and I'm at the end of my warranty I am absolutely going to put this truck back to normal and don't and don't let them take your equipment keep that stuff around. If they want to take your filter off and you do a do a delete get it back from get all the equipment back from these guys. Put it in a box keep it somewhere just in case the next administration decides to have another problem and say oh all you guys have deleted now have to put your stuff back on don't throw it away don't run to your local metal shop and say hey I'm going to turn this in for metal scrap your con your converters and your filters don't turn them in. You might it might look like good money now some of these converters they get two three grand for a scrap price you could probably pay for the whole job what it would take to do that just by taking scrapping your converter there's that much palladium and platinum in it. But I would say don't do it unless you plan on really getting rid of the rig when you're done and at that point if you sell it I don't even know what the ramifications are then let's say you take and buy it you delete it you're good you sell it to someone else and all of a sudden they change the law on someone else who's who's on the hook for putting it back on or do you put that in the sailing price? Yeah it's been deleted which will be a win for a lot of people with the current administration taking down some of these regulations for EPA I would be okay with buying a deleted vehicle where I wouldn't be for but again how long does that stick that is Chevy Cruz I really like that car. It's a it's a turdbox but I like that diesel and all the re EGR recirculation crap it's in there constantly fill the valve up with uh carbon. Now that's a GDI motor like all diesels are it's gas direct injected or fuel injected directed but when the cam has overlap and they're open just enough to go a couple days before a couple days after top dead center there's an opening where the valves will both be open at the same time and that little reversion comes back and it it sits the intake valves up. And then the EGR pulls fuel back through there that's been reburned not exhausted which now puts soot and crap and junk on the very back top side of your intake valves yeah that's kind of a thing too now your motor chokes out you're getting less air and if you get less air and you got the same amount of program fuel guess what happens? It goes richer. Now your car runs like crap because it's too fat. Fat's an acronym for fuel irritable too much fuel not enough air go in there, do the job clean all the intake valves out and magically delicious the car runs good again. I got twenty twenty six thousand miles on my on my Chevy cruise Desol, which I really like I don't know how many people are going to hear this, given the fact that we've been kinda political the last couple months, especially what's going on around this crazy state but I thought it was kind of a change, kind of a time for change. Something different besides loomin' doom and gloom and this current administration of this complete weird state state of non-common sense I would call it sometimes but you know even a nut, a blind nut blinds a squirrel once in a while if you got that backwards.

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They do find some ways to get things done.

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But Hutcast, I mean we're we're we're still wa sitting back and watching how things are going on like I hope like you guys are and if you can focus on some of the good stuff out of all this, hey, you know, winter chicken dinner But anyway, yeah I just wanted to catch up with you guys. It's been a little bit I uh stay tuned the book's gonna get some uh magic stuff written to it we hope to be in submission point pretty soon which is my three seashells gal she is just rocking at Michelle she's just making stuff happen and I can't wait to see what what our next steps are and you know it's just a it's just a thing. It's like it's kind of a cool gig to say hey look I've got one done read in and when it gets released well I'll certainly have it on the page we'll get it out in all formats and you can kind of hear what Hutcast went through to get to this point to give you some opinions on diesel fuel, on common sense, on what have you okay what are we at? Twenty-five twenty-six minutes into this second segment be well be vigilant be awake is all I can tell you because things are gonna get frosty for Headcast keep those comments coming I absolutely love talking to you guys after we went viral twice two million views on the Renee shooting thank you thank every one of you for for actually taking the time to completely watch that I I mean hands down I I love it and I do this for you because let me tell you there is absolutely zero money in making this podcast for your actually it cost me money but you know I mean it's just something to get out there and be in front of people and say hey look here's what I'm seeing but you are the ones that made it go viral twice. Two million views in about eight hours yeah unfortunately someone had to lose their life to get my two million views and as far as the Predi case Mr I carry in the commission of a felony yeah that one went pretty good too but at that point I was kind of already burnt out on this whole non-common sense thing I would consider common sense not to wear a weapon in the commission of a felony more than one okay that's it Hutcast keep those comments coming I appreciate every one of you I appreciate you completely be well hotcast is out and that's a wrap for Hutcast Hutcast is again a pragmatic approach to seeing things how some people see them. If you like our show give us a thumbs up on the Facebook site again for Hutcast thank you again have a wonderful evening