Hey bluecar while I'm not a big government advocate and firmly against the global warming bs you were a little harsh on the poor little o2 sensor. All it does is tell you if your cat is blocked. It sends nothing to the govmnt. The 5 gas smog test does all that. Coming from someone living in so California and suffering under smog laws.

 

Poor little O2 sensor, aww! Poor things, I smash them with a sledge hammer then snort the zirconium to pep me up in the morning. On OBD1 systems, yes, the 5 gas analyzer tests the efficiency of the catalytic converter, but on OBDII systems the oxygen sensor after the cat. takes it's place, therefore, I deem it the snitch sensor. Just proving a point the government controls emissions, and as a result controls us, yet they keep getting away with polluting the Earth.

I predict 50 years from now, the world will be a much different place but what do I know?

According to a government memorandum PDF document of BP's little adventure called "Initial Exploration Plan Mississippi Canyon Block 252 OCS-G 32306" states the following.

Page 3 - Map of both well locations
Page 8 - Only intended to explore and not complete well
Page 9 - MC252_A GPS coordinates (X: 1202803.88, Y: 10431617.00 )
Page 10 - MC252_B GPS coordinates (X:1202514.00, Y:10434194.00)

Put 1 and 1 together and you get=2 holes drilled over 5 miles underground for each well into the thinnest area of the mantle, the Gulf of Mexico, in the world under approx 100,000 PSI that current technology cannot contain. People aren't questioning why there is still activity at the well sites. If you had the money and wanted go precisely to the well locations underwater, would you be able to?

 

LMAO that just made my night. You have a point. CARB is planning on changing the emissions test on newer vehicles. They finally realized the new programming in the onboard computers makes the tailpipe sniffed and the dyno test obsolete. They will simply plug into OBDII and read the pids. Tells how the car is really working in the real traffic. And gets rid of paying for test equipment so the government can raise registration and smog tax and make it seem like we are still paying the same ammount.

 

"OBDIII-equipped vehicle would take OBDII a step further, by being able to report emissions problems directly to a regulatory agency. The transponder would communicate the vehicle VIN number and any diagnostic codes that were present. The system could be set up to automatically report an emissions problem via a cellular or satellite link the instant the MIL light comes on, or to answer a query from a cellular, satellite or roadside signal as to its current emissions performance status.

The advantages of using a satellite based telemetry system for OBDIII rather than a roadside system are: * Greater coverage of the entire vehicle population for more accurate surveillance. Vehicles could be monitored and queried no matter where they were, even while sitting in a garage or driveway. There'd be no way to avoid the watchful eye of the emissions police. * Being able to locate vehicles that are in violation of clean air statutes, either for "demographic studies" or to track down and arrest violators. * Being able to monitor the whereabouts of vehicles for purposes other than emissions surveillance such as recovering stolen vehicles (like today's LoJack anti-theft system), keeping tabs on suspected drug dealers, gang members and other undesirables. * Being able to disable vehicles that belong to emission scofflaws by transmitting a secret code. Law enforcement officers might also be able to use such a code to disable a vehicle fleeing from a crime scene or one that belonged to someone with a backlog of unpaid traffic violations." -Source