First Name | Nicholas |
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Last Name | Pinette |
Email Address | nicholas@offshorekayak.com |
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Subject | Off road diesels |
Comment | While I find your efforts to limit air pollution admirable, regulating off road diesel vehicle use strikes close to home and can cost me significantly. I own a diesel generator, a skip loader with implements and a forklift. I use them non-commercially and incidentally for the construction and maintenance of my rural property where I hope to eventually farm organic field crops. I bought old serviceable equipment and I could never afford to buy new equipment. Retrofitting these machines would be costly in itself. Just as there are exceptions for older automobiles...classics and otherwise...there should be exceptions for machines that are near the end of their working lives anyway. They are useful to a cross section of society who cannot afford to purchase and expense new equipment. Eventually, they break down and are too expensive to fix. In high pollution areas, I can see the necessity to do some kind of mitigation, but in Mendocino County, I don't see the wisdom of harming many farmers and small operators. At the very least the retrofit kits should be simple, affordable and subsidized if necessary. The big operators are already turning over their equipment on a regular basis. The small guys are always the ones to take it in the shorts. Thank you for listening and reading, Nicholas Pinette |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2007-07-16 14:58:44 |
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