April 12, 2011, 01:47 AM
Good news, for Mexico. Trucks from Mexico do not have to abide by US pollution rules. So, these trucks can be cheaper and operate cheaper than American owned and produced trucks
"Hundreds of big trucks cross the U.S.-Mexican border here every day, many more than once. On a busy day, the rigs idle for long stretches of time, waiting in line at the border, spewing exhaust through often-outdated mufflers that contribute to unhealthy levels of pollution.
For air-quality regulators, the border creates a legal barrier. State and federal agencies can't force vehicles manufactured and bought in Mexico to comply with U.S. emissions rules, even though the trucks cross into this country.
So the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality tried a different approach, offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters that will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30 percent. The project in effect circumvents the more lax Mexican rules about exhaust systems."
Now, Arizona tax dollars are going to bring the Mexican trucks up to US code--any wonder American States are in deep deficits and debt. Not only do we give free education and health care to all the criminals that come into our nation--now our corporations and families are paying to upgrade foreign trucks operating in the US.
The real problem is that Mexican trucks are exempted--so not many will use this free money. Why is the United States in a Depression--we give $3 billion in borrowed money so Brazil can drill, when Americans firms are not allowed. We are in a Depression because we do not enforce our immigration laws and we give money to foreign truckers to compete against American truckers.
Are we nuts?
"Hundreds of big trucks cross the U.S.-Mexican border here every day, many more than once. On a busy day, the rigs idle for long stretches of time, waiting in line at the border, spewing exhaust through often-outdated mufflers that contribute to unhealthy levels of pollution.
For air-quality regulators, the border creates a legal barrier. State and federal agencies can't force vehicles manufactured and bought in Mexico to comply with U.S. emissions rules, even though the trucks cross into this country.
So the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality tried a different approach, offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters that will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30 percent. The project in effect circumvents the more lax Mexican rules about exhaust systems."
Now, Arizona tax dollars are going to bring the Mexican trucks up to US code--any wonder American States are in deep deficits and debt. Not only do we give free education and health care to all the criminals that come into our nation--now our corporations and families are paying to upgrade foreign trucks operating in the US.
The real problem is that Mexican trucks are exempted--so not many will use this free money. Why is the United States in a Depression--we give $3 billion in borrowed money so Brazil can drill, when Americans firms are not allowed. We are in a Depression because we do not enforce our immigration laws and we give money to foreign truckers to compete against American truckers.
Are we nuts?
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