i have raised questions re: the EPA regulations, and i assure you i am no importer and am not in the business reselling these engine's.
i am just a guy who after losing it all in a nasty divorce, and having spent about 8 years trying to recover, and realizing that i am not getting younger, decided to adopt the 60's slogan. "stop the world i want off"
wasnt until i was over 42 years old that i read thoreau's "walden" and that book changed my whole outlook on life. i began to rethink my life as it pertains to "wants" and "needs"
after doing years of research, reading, thinking and figureing i have come to the conclusion that "walden" is just as applicable today as it was in the 1840's.
where am i going with this?
i bought 10 acres with an annual tax burden of 22 dollars, is it prime farm ground? no! but it fits my plan.
i dont want no stinking power lines, no phone lines, no nothing from the outside. can i do it? yes and no
yes i can do it in re: to power and phone, and the listeroid/changfa was a central part of that plan.
i guess i just got a little pissed off that after spending years developing my plan, uncle sam is doing his level best keeping me on the
treadmill.
am i some sort of nut? maybe. am i some sort of hippie drop out? no
i am just tired of working my ass off only to have someone else take it away, either in taxes, or in divorce court
as for the importers in this country trying to make a buck, i am all for them. after going in with another guy and buying 22 assorted imported diesels over the last couple of weeks and having to work out the logistics of getting them home from 130 miles away no way am i interested in dealing with a container load of anything, not even hot air.
perhaps i could get a 6/1 for 500 bucks myself, but with all the logistic's i likely would pay more than if i had bought it from the importer in the first place. and with him standing in front on warranty issues it seems like a no brainer to me,
alot like stepping over a dollar to pick up a penny.
i am inflamed over the EPA ruling on these engine's, no one is ever going to tell me that the listeroids are contributing any measureable amount of anything to the polution problems of the planet.
it just comes down to one more lost freedom in this country.
bob g