here is the link to todays newspaper article.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15415240.htm?source=rss

but in this article they state they want to get all the older diesels to get special particle filters on them "5k-15k each" !!!!!!

then they claim to have a number of deaths related to soot from diesels!! where the heck did they get that number?? my fiance is a nurse and they have never had a "diesel related death" in her hospital..

then they go onto say something about auto makers starting to sell diesels in california and that it could be the wave of the future because "diesel is so abundant" ***!!! if its so abundant then why am i paying 3.35 a gallon!!! thats 20 cents more than super!!! and now its gonna go up another 5 cents!!

yes i am ranting but this just seems to be getting out of control.. [director]
i hate people that want to save the frickin world, but want everybody else to pay for it.. i hope their Prius batteries have a hygrogen leak and they explode. [verymad] ok i dont realy want people to die, just to shut up.

They are never going to make you put an emisions device on a vehicle not originally equipped with one. The average Joe can't afford that either. They have not made me put a cat on my 70 Charger, or my 74 duster, or my 75 Dodge crew cab.

I didn't read the full article 'cause the guy who wrote it is an idiot, but I don't think it mentioned that most fuel in the state has been ULSD for the past year. I've had my truck for about 6-months now and it has run on ULSD exclusively. And no, you don't have to do a darn thing to your truck. Just another green idiot writing about something he knows nothing about.

My question would be if the fuel is 97% sulfur free what is the particular trap for, Carbon?

My question would be if the fuel is 97% sulfur free what is the particular trap for, Carbon?
Particulates and NoX.

Calif had a bill a couple of years ago to require retrofitting all diesel engines with traps. Even laid out the progression in how it would take effect, Ag tractors one year, stationary engines the next, etc.
The bill was going to provide some state assistance on the retrofit.
I never paid attention to whether the bill passed or not but know for sure all new diesel engines must meet higher than federal standards no matter how they are used.

the bill has pass , were going thru the refuse truck part now, transit buses are more then half way thru, and next in line is off road equipment and then LTL trucks and on , with reefer trailers also coming in around end of 09.
Cummins West this year alone has done over 1500 retrofit aftertreatment installs. it will never involve pick up trucks..... but we have been doing F450 with 6,0 for few Municipalities districts