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While I find your efforts to limit air pollution admirable,
regulating off road diesel vehicle use strikes close to home and
can cost me significantly.  I own a diesel generator, a skip
loader with implements and a forklift.  I use them
non-commercially and incidentally for the construction and
maintenance of my rural property where I hope to eventually farm
organic field crops.  I bought old serviceable equipment and I
could never afford to buy new equipment.  Retrofitting these
machines would be costly in itself.  Just as there are exceptions
for older automobiles...classics and otherwise...there should be
exceptions for machines that are near the end of their working
lives anyway.  They are useful to a cross section of society who
cannot afford to purchase and expense new equipment.  Eventually,
they break down and are too expensive to fix.  In high pollution
areas, I can see the necessity to do some kind of mitigation, but
in Mendocino County, I don't see the wisdom of harming many
farmers and small operators.  At the very least the retrofit kits
should be simple, affordable and subsidized if necessary.

The big operators are already turning over their equipment on a
regular basis.  The small guys are always the ones to take it in
the shorts.

Thank you for listening and reading,

Nicholas Pinette