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Pine Ridge Mall-North Wing: Trucks!

During the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024, the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.

“I love dualies!”, videos by me:

Rip it! Rip it good! :

Bowers ‘Elevate’ 1995 GMC, swapped on a 2010 GMC 2500 chassis:

Pine Ridge Mall-North Wing: OL’ BLUE ’72, AN IDAHO ORIGINAL!

Pine Ridge Mall inaugural Winter/New Year indoor car show: NORTH WING!

Supply Shortage Shenanigans: U.S. Marines coming for your Diesel?

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On 01FEB2023, the U.S. Marines Corps’ Combat Logistics Battalion 8-Combat Logistics Regiment 2-2nd Marine Logistics Group conducted diesel fuel collection at silly-vilian (civilian) fuel stations in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

A U.S. Marine Bulk Fuel Specialist fills his Joint Light Tactical Vehicle at a civilian fuel station in Jacksonville, North Carolina. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Sixto Castro, 01FEB2023.

The idea is to create a stockpile of diesel fuel (fuel cache) for a combat operations center and basecamp operations specifically for engineer units.

A Bulk Fuel Specialist pumps civilian diesel into a 55-gallon drum, 01FEB2023. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Sixto Castro.

The diesel fuel cache (stockpile), sourced from silly-vilian fuel stations, is located at an undisclosed location on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

Off-loading the 55-gallon drum full of civilian sourced diesel to an undisclosed cache-area on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 01FEB2023. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Sixto Castro.

The USMC would say only that the civilian diesel fuel stockpiling operation was “a test”!  Combat Logistics Battalion 8 has a Facebook page, but I didn’t see anything about this civilian fuel sourcing operation on it.

Supply Shortage Shenanigans: NO TESTING REQUIRED FOR VETERANS TO DRIVE BIG-RIGS IN IDAHO?

Civil War U.S.A.: DRUGS, EDUCATION, GUN BANS, IMMIGRANTS, INFRASTRUCTURE, MANDATES, PANDEMICS, SECESSION

U.S. Pandemic Logistics Perfidy, October 2021: YES, CALIFORNIA’S TRUCKING & EMPLOYMENT LAWS PARTIALLY TO BLAME FOR SUPPLY PROBLEMS!

Biden’s Borderland: ‘Illegal’ trucks being smuggled into U.S. from Canada, thru Idaho?

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Idaho is now caught in the middle of a so-called smuggling operation involving the leftist-liberal controlled state of Washington, and the leftist-liberal federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

On 07OCT2022, the EPA announced that once again the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CPB) caught ‘illegal’ diesel powered pickup trucks being ‘smuggled’ into Washington state, from Canada, through Idaho: “We appreciate the partnership with the Customs and Border Protection agents in ensuring compliance with these important laws to protect public health.”-Ed Kowalski, EPA Region 10 Enforcement and Compliance Assistance Division

The EPA says the trucks are illegal because they violate current EPA regulations concerning diesel powered pickup trucks.

Specifically, on 23SEP2022 a company called DDM Imports Incorporated (not to be confused with the South African based DDM Imports which focuses on importing parts for German cars), headquartered in the city of Airways Heights, Washington, was fined $41-thousand-582 for attempting to import allegedly altered diesel powered pickups from Canada, through the border-port-town of Eastport, in Idaho.  The CPB reported that upon inspection of the vehicles they claim they found that the emission controls had be altered and no longer complied with EPA regulations. The EPA says this is the fourth such incident in the past three years, DDM Imports has been fined for each incident.

Since January 2020, the EPA began a new crackdown (National Compliance Initiative) on what the leftist-liberals believe should be illegal motors, it is called Stopping Aftermarket Defeat Devices for Vehicles and Engines.   And, with all the problems of illegal migrants and illegal drugs flooding into the U.S., the EPA has the CPB busy inspecting inanimate objects rather than protecting the citizens from dangerous invaders and chemicals!

DDM Imports is a U.S. based vehicle importer/exporter that ships directly from/to Canada.  DDM has two locations in Washington, and one operation in each of the following: Minnesota, Montana and Utah.

It should also be noted that diesel emissions are less toxic than gasoline, you can shut yourself into a garage with a diesel motor running and emerge the next day with a headache, but still very much alive, while the CO emissions from a gasoline motor will kill you within 5-minutes!  A properly tuned diesel will not produce toxic levels of CO, however, a diesel motor that is not properly tuned (over-rich fuel/air mixture) it can. But the environmental-fascists are more concerned with the particulates than with actual poisons, that is why they prefer toxic gasoline over diesel, and love the more toxic lithium powered electric vehicles.

(The Simple Answer is, “Yes,” Diesel is Cleaner than Gasoline)

Photo via DDM Imports.

It should be noted that on DDM’s own website they state that “Once the vehicle arrives on our lot, we perform the necessary modification to make the vehicle compliant with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety standards.” There is no mention of EPA regulations.

Biden’s Borderland August 2022:  BOAT PEOPLE NOW BRINGING THEIR PETS, JUST GOING FISHING?

False Flag 2016: VICTORY FOR VW DIESEL LOVERS, OR VICTORY FOR ANTI-DIESEL NUTS?

False Flag 2015: VW INTENTIONALLY SACRIFICES DIESEL IN FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT CONTROLLABLE ELECTRIC CARS! BLAME TRILATERAL COMMISSION OIL RICH ROCKEFELLERS!

$$ TESLA $$ BITES THE ELECTRIC DUST ON RELIABILITY!

False Flag 2014: MAZDA’S NEW 65+ MPG DIESEL, BUT DON’T EXPECT TO SEE IT IN THE ANTI-DIESEL CAR UNITED STATES!

FORD HYBRID FUEL ECONOMY A LIE! HYUNDAI & KIA BEING SUED! OBAMA REGIME EPA IN ON THE SCAM? DIESELS RULE!

1989 7.3IDI DIESEL AMBULANCE COLD START

Climate Wars 2022:

IDAHO ENDS VEHICLE EMISSION TESTING, THE AIR IS TOO CLEAN, DESPITE THOSE DIRTY DOMESTIC MIGRANTS?

Biden’s War 2022:  IDAHO DEPLOYS, YET AGAIN!

Hunger Games 2022: WHY ARE TAXPAYER FUNDED RATIONS BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER?

1989 7.3IDI Diesel Ambulance Cold Start

My daughter Aryssa made this ‘cold start’ video of my 1989 International Harvester powered 7.3IDI diesel ambulance.

For most of the 1990s it was used by at least two ambulance services in the Salt Lake City area of Utah.

You can barely see the residue from the Idaho State University logo on the side of the ‘box’.

Then it was used by my Alma Mater (Idaho State University) as a ‘static’ vehicle (because it did not run) for EMS training from about 1998 to 2012 or maybe 2015, then was left to rot in their vehicle maintenance yard. I bought it for $750 in 2019. I replaced the fuel, engine oil, fan belts, found an air cleaner assembly (the original was missing), bought a new expensive oil dip stick (the original was broken in half), new batteries (it takes two), and new tires (6 expensive tires that cost more than what I paid for the ambulance). It runs strong, and several diesel mechanics told me the 50-thousand miles on the odo-meter is correct.

I also replaced the forward facing red lenses with amber lenses.  I’m still struggling to figure out why the tail lights suddenly went haywire after I got the new tires (they come on, but randomly and they do weird things when I step on the brake pedal and have the turn signal on). Replaced two flashers, checked all the bulbs, fuses are good, tearing apart the steering column now to see if the wiring in there is still good.

Pandemic 2020: SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

Cascadia Airlift: JUST IN CASE YOU GET ISOLATED BY THE MASSIVE Pacific Northwest QUAKE & TSUNAMI

Disaster 2022: IDAHO’S GOWEN FIELD UNDER GAS ATTACK!

Disaster 2021: IDAHO MILITIA & BOISE FD TRAIN FOR SWIFT WATER RESCUES, WITHOUT WATER!

Denton Program Failure: CANADIAN FIRE TRUCKS, U.S. AIR FORCE, CENTRAL AMERICA

2019: 1942 FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE USAF!

Busiest Chubbuck Days ever, 2012:

LaFrance firetruck Chubbuck Fire Department

DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS AND POLES BEING THROWN AROUND, PLUS FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM CHUBBUCK STYLE!

“We’ll be hiring a ton of people!” Suddenly 70-thousand auto workers unemployed!

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Never ending techno-glitches, rebelious parts suppliers, crashing sales and more conspiratorial moves towards all-electric vehicles could kill-off a once iconic car brand; Volkswagen.

The latest tech propblem for VW is that its eletronic lock system can be easily hacked, according to research at United Kingdom’s University of Birmingham.   That means at least 100-million VW, Skoda and Seat vehicles are vunerable!  The study also found that Ford, Peugeot and Citroen vehicles are also screwed up.

Despite seemingly never ending techno-probs for VW, the Deutschland based car maker is ramping up plans to make more tech heavy electric cars.  Five new electric models are planned, with the prototype of one to be revealed next month at the Paris Auto Show.  To confirm my suspicions that the whole diesel scandal is a Rockefeller funded False Flag operation to push vehicle owners into cars they don’t want, VW says it will produce one million electric cars per year by 2025. 

In Deutschland, nearly 70-thousand automotive industry employees found themselves suddenly unemployed when vehicle production was halted at six VW factories, and worker strikes hit several independantly run parts factories!  For the past few weeks news reports said the looming shutdowns were to be blamed on disputes with parts suppliers. Parts suppliers (controlled by a company called Prevent) accuse VW of violating its own contracts and say VW hasn’t been paying them.  However, perhaps the real reason for the production halt is the fact that VW sales in the United States fell for a ninth straight month, an 8% decline in July.

Sales in the Fatherland of Deutschland fell 8.7%.  But that’s nothing compared to the 32% decline in Brazil (for the first half of 2016)!

Main stream anti-diesel news media keeps blaming the situation on the False Flag diesel scandal, but most VW diesel owners love their TDIs: “The irony is that Volkswagen Group has been a champion of diesel propulsion…the best in the industry… so good, they could convert most hardcore petrolheads.”-CarScoops

Interestingly Spain based Gestamp, a VW parts maker, says it can’t find enough employees for its factory in Tennessee to handle orders for VW’s new sport utility vehicle: “We’ll be hiring a ton of people!”-Madalyn Roberts, Gestamp HR

VICTORY FOR VW DIESEL LOVERS, OR VICTORY FOR ANTI-DIESEL NUTS?

RUSSIANS HAVE THE MONEY. …VW…MAKES THEIR MOVE

Victory for VW Diesel lovers, or Victory for anti-Diesel nuts?

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Last year VolksWagen suddenly revealed that their emissions software on their newer diesel cars only works when it knows that the vehicle is being smog tested.  But has there been actual independent testing of that claim, or we just have to take VW’s word?

Reuters is reporting that the state of California is now working with VW to test new software that will allow diesel loving VW owners to keep their vehicles, rather than sell them back.

But there’s more proof (to me) that this whole thing is a global anti-diesel scam.  I’ve already reported that the Rockefellers ‘ordered’ the car manufacturing industry to shift towards electric cars, months before VW suddenly made their ’emission scam’ revelation (the oil baron Rockefellers are the ones who successfully sued Rudolph Diesel because his motor was originally designed to run on vegetable oil).  VW’s latest deal with U.S. states will see VW spending billions of U.S. dollars reducing emissions of diesel vehicles it didn’t even make!

That’s right, VW has agreed to spend more than $2.7-billion USD to make diesel vehicles, made by other manufactures, less polluting!  

Volkswagen agrees to pay Idaho state government $2.6-million USD

VW ACCUSED OF TAX EVASION!

SUZUKI SUES VW FOR DIVORCE

VW takes-over Suzuki

VolksWagen claims Suzuki violated its contract by purchasing diesel engines from another car maker.

11 March 2011 disasters scare VW away from diesel truck maker Izuzu

VW accused of tax evasion!

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German tax administrators are accusing Volkswagen of tax evasion in connection to their emissions rigging scandal.

That scandal has now spread to gas powered vehicles in Europe.

The tax evasion accusations focus on five top level VW employees and tax breaks for producing vehicles which meet Germany’s low emission standards.

False Flag: VW intentionally sacrifices Diesel…Blame Rockefeller!

False Flag: VW intentionally sacrifices Diesel in favor of government controllable electric cars! Blame Trilateral Commission Rockefeller!

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Has anybody found it suspicious that from day one the execs at VW admitted they sabotaged their own Turbo Direct Injection (TDI) diesel powered cars? Or that they seem almost happy to halt TDI sales and recall millions of TDIs around the world?  This is a first in the world of Corporations who normally deny, deny, deny.

Where’s Idaho, I know they’re some hardcore Diesel fans in Idaho!

TDI vehicles were the fastest growing sales segment for VW, and VW administrators intentionally modified an emissions computer program that even the designer of (Bosch) warned,  in writing, not to!  Now realize that VW is pushing sales of their new electric car called the e-Golf.

Just a few days ago a survey revealed that 75% of electric car ‘owners’ refuse to actually buy the car, instead they lease.  But that’s not all, leases of electric vehicle (EV) in the United States peaked in 2013 and have been steadily declining since then (in 2013 EV leasing was at 80%).  The survey excluded the damned expensive Tesla cars because their average monthly lease is almost $9-hundred per month with a nearly $7-thousand USD down payment!

In the European country of France EV sales actually went negative!

Why lease an electric car instead of buy it?  Because it costs almost as much to replace the environmentally deadly batteries as it does to buy a newer used car!   So, herein lies the difference between e-car operators and diesel vehicle owners: E-car operators are not committed to the vehicle, they’re short timers, they’re not long term ‘car lovers’ who want to actually own a piece of rolling art.  Diesel vehicle owners want a vehicle they can hang onto long after it’s been paid off, their looking for a long term commitment.  This is something the automotive industry does not want.

The automotive industry wants turn-a-round, they want to sell new cars constantly.  In Germany, where VW is based, government control freaks have been trying to ban older cars for decades.   In 2008, Berlin, Cologne and Hanover created strict ‘pollution’ laws.  As one resident of Berlin commented “The problem is that this affects ONLY people who have a Diesel that is more then 2 years old or a normal gasoline car that has no catalytic converter (my 1986 VW bus does have one and I got a green sticker means I can go inside the city with it). In the end it affects people who have small bussinesses most – people who need to drive small vans – which are 99% diesels here in germany or people who have gotten onto the cheap diesel bandwagon that has hit germany in the mid 90s – mostly poor families or budget aware people…  …Its meant to give the german automotive industry a bump (hey we have an ultra conservative government without greens or such in power what you expect?) because its struggling thats all thats coming out of it.”    It’s all about guaranteed sales!

You can’t even work on your own car in Germany unless you use an approved car Hobby Work Shop: “…doing work on your car is technically not illegal, but doing any sort of work where the possibility that fluids can leak onto the ground is, except for on a sealed ground, for instance an epoxy sealed garage. Meaning no oil changes, no working on the cooling system, no brake fluid changes. If caught I believe the fine can be anywhere between 500 to 10,000 euros. Therefore one should look for what is known as a Hobbywerkstatt, there you can rent a lift, tools, and are able to dispose of all fluids without risking it.”-Twitch_de Frankfurt am Main

There are now some exemptions to those A-hole laws, such as ‘classic’ car clubs who conduct a yearly protest cruise to the capital Berlin where they drive their decades old cars ’round and ’round the capitol building, honking their aged horns and revving their engines.

France has just passed an anti-old car law as well.  Starting in 2016 the city of Paris will ban cars made in 2001 or earlier, classic cars are not exempted! City A-holes will ‘give’ old car owners the equivalent of $1,500 USD to buy a new car!  (perhaps it’s really about boosting those negative EV sales)

The city of Los Angeles, in California, tried that in the early 1990s and it was a failure.  Why?  The city was going to compensate old car owners with only a few hundred dollars towards buying a new car, and classic cars were not exempted.  When all the classic car owners got together and threatened a massive class action lawsuit based on the value of their expensively restored cars the A-hole city administrators backed off.

Then there’s the proven fact that the more ‘electrified-computerized’ your car is the easier it is for the government (or some other nefarious ne’er-do-well) to hack into and directly control your vehicle.

For conspiracy aficionados; why is the U.S. terror agency known as USAID pushing the leasing of EVs through their Finance and Economic Development (the true FED) program?  This brings up another point about EVs, they’re production and sales are supported by taxpayer subsidies!  (“The world’s most electrified auto market didn’t rev its engines overnight….It took a lot of work and a lot of subsidies for Norway to become a major electric-vehicle success story”)

Diesels represent true independence, especially if you have an older vehicle that can easily run on bio-diesel (which is basically vegetable oil)!  Hell, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel built his iconic engine to run on vegetable oil: “In 1900 a small Diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto company which, on the suggestion of the French Government, was run on Arachide [peanut] oil, and operated so well that very few people were aware of the fact. The motor was built for ordinary oils, and without any modification was run on vegetable oil….. I have recently repeated these experiments on a large scale with full success and entire confirmation of the results formerly obtained.”   He is the first documented victim of the monstrous U.S. Standard Oil company, The American oil millionaire John D. Rockefeller became his nemesis because diesel engines consumed less oil than other engines….at the expense of the profits of oil companies.”   He was later ‘disappeared’ from a ship in the english Channel, later an unidentifiable body was found floating near Norway!

What does oil family Rockefeller have to do with the government and industry push towards electric vehicles?   In 2014 a British news report revealed that the Rockefeller heirs were dumping their investments in petroleum oil and shifting to alternative energy, such as electric cars!  

Electric Vehicles Market to Rise at 19.2% CAGR from 2013 to 2019

Gas Hole: What the oil companies don’t want you to know

HISTORY OF BIODIESEL FUEL

The Economics, History and Politics of Hemp Fuels

Mazda’s new 65+ MPG Diesel, but don’t expect to see it in the anti-Diesel car United States! 

Ford Hybrid fuel economy a lie! Hyundai & Kia being sued! Obama regime EPA in on the scam? 

Diesel powered Locomotives brought back to life after Japan Disaster, Low Tech saving High Tech!

Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission’s push for one world government 

Mazda’s new 65+ MPG Diesel, but don’t expect to see it in the anti-Diesel car United States!

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Mazda claims it has a new 1.5 liter turbo diesel engine that got an impressive 28+ Kilometers Per Liter (about 65+ Miles Per U.S. Gallon) in their test car!  And Mazda says it will be the cleanest burning diesel engine available worldwide in 2015, claiming no NOx system is required!

Well, worldwide doesn’t mean anti-diesel car United States.   In fact the state of California is making it near impossible to even sell new diesel cars, due to their asinine and ever tightening state EPA rules.

Mazda says their main market for their new diesel powered cars will be the diesel loving European Union, as well as any other country that loves saving money and the environment.  Did you known that diesel exhaust soot can be captured (Diesel Particulate Filter) and then used as fertilizer for your plants?  It’s carbon!

The tiny new Mazda diesel engine reportedly produces 77 kW (105 hp) and 250 Nm (184 ft lb) of torque.  It will be available in the 2015 Mazda 2.  Look out Volkswagen!

clean burning Diesel powered CX-5 Crossover, better MPG than Hybrid SUVs

Corporate Evil: Ford Hybrid fuel economy a lie! Hyundai & Kia being sued! Obama regime EPA in on the scam? Diesels rule!

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Yet more proof those environmentalist do-gooders don’t know what they’re talking about: Ford admits they flubbed on the fuel economy of their hybrid cars.

Ford says it will make a “goodwill” payback to 215-thousand U.S. hybrid car owners (13-thousand Canadians) because the advertised Miles Per Gallon rate on their hybrid Fiesta, Fusion, Lincoln MKZ , C-Max, and plug-in hybrids Fusion and C-Max Energi vehicles are wrong.

The actual MPG of those cars is about 7MPG lower.  The problem is how car companies test their vehicles.  It’s turning out that their road testing does not match real world realities.

Hyundai and Kia are being sued over their MPG claims for their hybrids.

In May, Consumer Reports stated that the new Honda Accord hybrid failed to get the advertised 47MPG.  In fact, the all gas Accord gets better MPG than what its hybrid sibling actually got!

It was Consumer Reports that pointed out that gas-electric hybrids made by Honda, Hyundai, Kia and Ford all failed to obtain their advertised MPG!   They even blamed the U.S. EPA for creating false results: “We’ve found that the EPA tests often exaggerate the fuel economy of hybrids.”-Jake Fisher, Consumer Reports

The lower hybrid MPG figures mean that there are a few all gas powered cars that get just as good MPG, and there are diesel powered cars that outright beat hybrids and all gas cars in MPG!  (Go Volkswagen!)

Hybrid cars are a sham! Honda settles California lawsuit