The Revenge of the Two Stokes

 The overt attitude of largely unregulated Corporate America is there is no such thing as Global Warming.  In the words of Donald Trump himself, "It is a hoax."  Anything that impedes the private sectors quest for profit isn't real.  Four years of this perspective has dealt an almost lethal blow to mainstream America.  There is a crisis of upper respiratory tract infection at Cape Fear Valley Hospital.  In one fell Christmastime swoop, positive test results for Covid, Influenza, and RSV are pouring in.  Mask again are required.  That families congregate for Christmas in light of the Covid debacle explains some of this.  There are larger, more dire, and tangible causes for these outbreaks of disease.  A lack of clean breathable air is the most logical explanation.  Barack Obama suggested a CO2 tax, a tax for emissions into the environment.  There is a better solution, and it is accountability for the burning of fossil fuels.  No ones seems to mention that before the industrial revolution, human beings and Mother Nature were the main consumers of oxygen.  Before the internal combustion engine, jet turbines, diesel prime movers, and millions of personal vehicles, there must have been more and cleaner air.  The quest for a transition away from fossil fuels is necessary.  If we had to mitigate the plague of air pollution in a nutshell, then the intake of needed oxygen in these vehicles should be calculated, monitored, and taxed.  Because technically man does not own oxygen created by the planet, it is viewed as gratuitous.  Herein lies the rub.  Aircraft, diesel trains, and vehicles all require planet-produced oxygen to operate.  Fossil fuels can't burn without oxygen.  Burning fossil fuels consumes massive amounts of oxygen needed for human and animal life.  It is difficult to look favorably on any industry that takes oxygen for free, mixes it with fossil fuels, burns it, and replaces it with noxious carbon exhaust.  These vehicles don't just create Greenhouse gases.  They also burn the clean oxygen we need to breathe to be healthy.  This problem has reached critical mass, and it is a large part of the equation of the spreading of airborne disease.  Without clean air, we are doomed.  The EPA has enacted Tier standards, and railroads have had to be compliant.  GE conceived their GEVO engines to mitigate this challenge.  They have been successful limiting their carbon emissions, but monitoring and regulation of the railroads is minimal.  The same is true for wireless communications.  During the four years of Donald Trump, helpful, healthy, necessary regulation of emissions has waned.  5G, of which Verizon is using millimeter waves for their top tiered product, is destructive to human cells.  Cell phones towers never have been more prevalent, and any adherence to regulatory policy has been scrape.  The American landscape is a hodgepodge of ugly transmitting towers many disguised as trees, sculptures, and flagpoles.  The effects of the EMF radiation is grievous and harmful, but the strong arm of the lobby keeps them facile.  America has become one big grift, and it was because President Grifter couldn't care less about American lives.  The damage he created for what once was an inspiring and exemplary nation is devastating.  The way to rule a nation is to destroy it.  Desperate people vote criminals.  A common economic ploy is to rebrand, repackage, and promote detritus.  DuPont sold their manufacturing of Teflon to the Chinese and changed its name to Chemours.  Presto chango and suddenly we are supposed to accept unwanted disease and even death caused by our own constituents.  I have written about the dangers of low frequency sound for twenty years.  If you burn breathable oxygen, replace it with toxins, and push it around the globe with infrasound waves the demise of the human race is near.  Fayetteville is a unique city, and most know why.  Nestled on the major north south route of the Eastern Seaboard, Interstate I-95, near the deep water port of Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal, and a logistical meeting point for three railroads, and within five miles of the world's largest military base, residents of Fayetteville are an afterthought.  I make fun of Norfolk/Southern for driving to heavy haul mainline locomotives to their yard on Russell Street.  Often the fare is a few freight cars consisting of scrap metal, fertilizer, or propane.  Why do you need 8800 horse power to pull such a small train?  Part of this equation is the construction of I-295.  Fayetteville Concrete and Block threatens to consume neighborhoods in downtown Fayetteville.  What will come of it when that need for concrete ends?  Hauling limestone is a burdensome task, but now N/S wisely has stepped out of the loop.  They sold their trackage from Raleigh to Fayetteville through Fuquay Varina to the RJ Corman Railroad Group.  They created a brand new short line railroad with shiny locomotives, which in most likelihood are grandfathered into lower EPA Tier standards.  Even if they have lessened their emissions, their reliance on the SD-40-2 is disruptive to Fayetteville citizens.  Why?  The answer is while this locomotive may have been a workhorse for the rail industry, its prime mover uses a turbo-charged TWO stroke diesel engine.  America has had the prudence to limit dependence on two stroke engines, and most have been discontinued.  Motocross specifically had to retool to adapt to the now required four stroke.  It is called a CRF, a CR with a four stroke power plant.  Previous CR's were two strokes, and they spewed out a large percentage of their fuel/oil mixture as exhaust.  RJ Corman of itself has created the Revenge of the Two Stroke, and that teeth chattering, bone-shaking, grind of a 12 or 16 cylinder prime mover in Notch 8 is unmistakable.  It has returned to Fayetteville with a vengeance, and the holiday air is saturated with airborne black microdust.  This is a problem.  No one in Corporate America gives a rat's ass about Fayetteville citizens.  They strafe downtown with low-flying Embraer jets daily.  Like a Manhattan skyscraper, the cop on the beat doesn't matter, because the money is in the towers.  I question the adoption of the SD-40-2 as motive power.  It is a retro move, one that saves millions of dollars in new locomotive costs, but pulls the spaghetti bowl and rust belt back into antiquity.  High speed passenger rail?  Bah hum bug.  Evolution is just a word.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  Lynching freed slaves never was a sin.