I believe we have accepted too many inferior products

Like it cant be impossible to design and produce a coffee pot that dont spill all over and in 1988 the detroit diesel series 60 could get better than 9 miles per gallon now the average semi is mid 5 and they say they are cleaner ok how can it burn twice the fuel and be cleaner?????

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Johnblackthorn · 56-60, M

A lot of fuel is wasted cleaning the emissions, it does seem counter intuitive to waste fuel to get clean exhaust emissions rather that chase efficiency, but efficient engines are slow to accelerate, and the industry seems to be obsessed with it.