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by m3047 1490 days ago
Might not be as efficient, but it probably isn't going to stop on the highway with a load of chickens in the beating sun because the diesel was contaminated (at least not right away).

You might not be able to brick your combine if someone steals it, but nobody can brick it while you're trying to get the harvest in either.

Bureacratic enforcement suffers, but who cares as long as the bureacrats get paid, right?