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2021-12-12 Down Under
Australia has just FIVE WEEKS left of essential chemical [urea] diesel trucks need to start their engines as service stations start to run out - and it could leave supermarket shelves empty by Christmas
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-12 10:18|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
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#1 Do they *need* it, or is it for emissions controls?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-12 10:39||   2021-12-12 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Modern diesel engines powering trucks, utes and four-wheel drives won't start unless AdBlue has been added to the exhaust system to reduce the levels of nitric oxide pollution.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-12 11:47||   2021-12-12 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Green thinking at its finest. Stupid choices resulting in stupid outcomes,until one day the cascading effects of needless complexity bite you in the ass. Welcome to single point of failure systems analysis.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-12 13:52||   2021-12-12 13:52|| Front Page Top

#4 and the tractor/tankers that deliver food, fuel and ...*ahem*, urea, are Diesel.
Posted by Frank G 2021-12-12 14:54||   2021-12-12 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 So we have not yet embraced AdBlue technology in the US?
Posted by Bobby 2021-12-12 15:09||   2021-12-12 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Pardon my ignorance but can't you make your own urea by drinking enough beer?
Posted by jpal 2021-12-12 15:48||   2021-12-12 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, they're Aussies, so I know some will try
Posted by Frank G 2021-12-12 16:14||   2021-12-12 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 So we have not yet embraced AdBlue technology in the US?

Oh, it's global.
China stopped shipping.

Global Urea Shortage Could Park Diesel Trucks



Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-12 16:54||   2021-12-12 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^^

Hark, hark...we have been sabotaged and targeted, all the truckers now know they have shot urea...

bada-bing.
Posted by Elmereting Cleper2091  2021-12-12 17:44||   2021-12-12 17:44|| Front Page Top

#10 This is what happens when you disarm the population.
Posted by Woodrow 2021-12-12 20:01||   2021-12-12 20:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Just as I thought -- emissions control, not necessary.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-12 20:36||   2021-12-12 20:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Methane -- kills the planet
Urea -- not to be found anywhere

Well, shits or farts, a feller can't piss fer tryin' in this Wokey-Wacky World

- apologies to Slim Pickens
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-12 20:43||   2021-12-12 20:43|| Front Page Top

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