The Emissions Scam: How “Green” Cars Became a Cash Grab

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Jan 202026
 

They told us the future would be cleaner, smarter, and more efficient. Instead, we got cars that break down in ways no one can fix, dealerships that hold our vehicles hostage, and a slow creep of control over something that used to be ours: the freedom of the open road.

The Emissions Scam — “Green” cars were supposed to save the planet. Instead, they’re emptying your wallet. How emissions regulations and dealerships are profiting at your expense.

Twenty years ago, if your car sputtered on the highway, you pulled over, popped the hood, and fixed it. Maybe you had a buddy who knew engines. Maybe you just tinkered until it worked. Either way, the solution was in your hands.

Today? Good luck.

Modern cars are packed with sensors, proprietary software, and “emissions compliance” systems that turn a simple oil change into a diagnostic nightmare. Worse, the people who sold you the car—the same ones who swear they’re saving the planet—have made sure you can’t fix it yourself.

Why?

Because if you can’t fix it, you have to pay them. And if you can’t modify it, they control what you drive.

This wasn’t an accident. It was a takeover.

The Emissions Scam: How “Saving the Earth” Became a Cash Grab

Let’s be clear: No one likes pollution. But the way they’ve sold us on “clean cars” has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with money and control.

Start with emissions systems. Modern cars have more computers than a 1980s NASA shuttle, all dedicated to monitoring exhaust gases, fuel mixtures, and God knows what else. One bad sensor? Your car goes into “limp mode” and won’t drive right until you pay a dealer $1,200 to reset it.

Who benefits? Not you. Not the planet. The people who sell the parts, the software, and the “certified” repairs.

Then there’s ethanol fuel. They told us it was greener. What they didn’t say? It corrodes engines faster, forces you to buy premium gas, and—surprise—makes your car dependent on more frequent (and expensive) maintenance.

And don’t get started on electric vehicles. You can’t even check the oil because there isn’t any. When the battery dies in five years, you’re looking at a $20,000 replacement—or a junkyard trip.

This isn’t progress. It’s planned obsolescence.

The Dealership Monopoly: Why Your Car Isn’t Really Yours

Here’s a fun fact: In most states, if you modify your car’s emissions system—even to improve efficiency—you’re breaking the law. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made it illegal to tamper with anything that affects exhaust, even if the changes make the engine run better.

Who enforces this? Dealerships. Because they’re the only ones “authorized” to touch these systems.

Need a new catalytic converter? That’ll be $3,000, please. And if you try to buy a used one? Illegal in many places. They’ve turned car ownership into a lease agreement where they call the shots.

Worse, they’ve convinced people this is normal. That you shouldn’t be able to work on your own car. That only “certified technicians” with $50,000 in diagnostic tools should be allowed under the hood.

Bullshit.

The Cars We Used to Have (And How to Get Them Back)

There was a time when cars were simple, durable, and repairable. No internet connection required. No “software updates” that brick your engine if you miss one. Just metal, fuel, and freedom.

Here’s how we bring that back:

1. Buy Pre-2000 (Before the Computers Took Over)

The best cars ever made? Most were built before OBD-II diagnostics became mandatory in 1996. No CAN bus system. No “check engine” light for a loose gas cap. Just mechanical parts you can see, touch, and fix.

  • Best picks:
    • Toyota Hilux (1980s-90s) – Runs forever, no electronics to fail.
    • Ford F-150 (pre-1997) – Simple V8, easy to work on.
    • Chevy Silverado (1990s) – No computer-controlled throttle, no nonsense.
    • Jeep Cherokee XJ (1984-2001) – The last truly repairable SUV.

Bonus: These cars don’t need “specialized tools” to fix. A wrench, a socket set, and a little patience are all you need.

2. Strip Out the Emissions Junk (Where Legal)

If you own a pre-1996 car, you’re in luck—federal emissions laws don’t apply. That means you can:

  • Remove the EGR valve (exhaust gas recirculation—it gums up engines).
  • Delete the catalytic converter (if your state allows it).
  • Swap in a carburetor instead of fuel injection (no more sensor failures).

Result? A car that runs stronger, lasts longer, and doesn’t strangle itself with “green” regulations.

(Note: Check your state laws. Some places still enforce smog checks on older cars. But in many rural areas? No one cares.)

3. Learn the Lost Art of Wrenching

The biggest lie they sold us? “You can’t fix cars anymore.”

Wrong.

  • YouTube has every repair tutorial imaginable.
  • Haynes manuals still exist for older cars.
  • Local mechanics (the real ones, not dealership techs) will teach you if you ask.

Start small:

  • Change your own oil.
  • Replace spark plugs.
  • Bleed your brakes.

Before you know it, you’ll be pulling engines like it’s 1975.

4. Fight Back Against the System

The more people refuse to buy new, overcomplicated cars, the harder it is for them to enforce this scam.

  • Buy used. Starve the new car market.
  • Support right-to-repair laws. Some states are pushing back—help them.
  • Modify your car legally. If enough people ignore the emissions rules, they become unenforceable.

They want you dependent. Don’t let them win.

The Future They Don’t Want You to See

They’ll call you a polluter. A dinosaur. A threat to the planet.

But here’s the truth: The most sustainable car is the one that never breaks down. The one you can fix yourself. The one that doesn’t need a $10,000 battery swap every few years.

The world is waking up. People are realizing the “green” car movement wasn’t about saving the Earth—it was about controlling what you drive, how you drive, and who you pay to keep driving.

The fixable car isn’t dead. It’s just been hidden.

Time to bring it back.

What’s the last car you worked on yourself? And what’s stopping you from doing it again? Drop a comment—let’s keep this conversation alive.

Oil Sanctions

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Mar 062022
 

There are more Oil Sanctions on America than there are on Russia.

 
 
 
 
 


There are more Oil Sanctions on America than there are on Russia.

The Green Thing

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Feb 032015
 

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.

The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”

The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”

The older lady said that she was right — our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day. The older lady went on to explain:

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling’s. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn’t do the “green thing” back then.

We walked upstairs because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn’t have the “green thing” in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.

Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working, so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she’s right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty, instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family’s $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the “green thing”. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the “green thing” back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.

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