Your tax dollars are paying to put equipment on Mexican trucks.
The Arizona Republic has the story:
...the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality...offer(ed) 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.Hard to say whether using American tax dollars to put catalytic converters on Mexican trucks is better or worse than using American tax dollars to put EOBRs on Mexican trucks.
Using federal grant money, the state agency installed the new converters on 55 trucks last year and will refit about the same number by the middle of this year. The project is part of a broader initiative to improve air quality on both sides of the border, where towns and cities often lack resources or expertise to do it themselves...
Using EPA grant money, the state offered to refit the trucks with the new exhaust systems, replacing factory-installed mufflers with converters similar to what is required for U.S. trucks. The process takes two or three hours to complete at a cost per truck of about $1,600.Has the world gone mad?
