My Balls!!! What happened to my balls?!?

[Kieran Walker]

Originally posted by Razzinno
The problem reported around here is the school buses are using a new low-sulfur diesel fuel that they're required to use under federal environmental standards that went into effect last fall. The fuel tends to congeal at low temperatures, clogging the filters which in turn prevents the fuel from getting to the engine.

Not all the buses are stored in garages or in some cases, power was lost to the garages so there was no heat in them.

Exactly. I drive a school bus, and for the last week we've had to leave them running overnight because 60% of them wouldn't start on Monday, despite being plugged in (so the buses, by Friday night, had been running for roughly 120 hours--the fuel expense alone, man!). The utter chaos we had on Monday trying to get our routes covered kind of made the terminal manager say "fuck the EPA, we can't afford to do this every morning."

Incidentally, having to inspect the bus in -15 weather every morning, or whatever it was--I know at least one day was -15--is not fun.