• pollution control on most Guat vehicles.

    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 24 05:59:22 2024
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    Some of the vehicles, especially chicken buses and trucks, but no where
    near all of them, belch black smoke in great amount here in Guatemala, especially when starting up hills, of which their are endless.

    I dont' think there is any required pollution inspecition, and it makes
    me think that the demands, largely from the US I think, for cars with
    pollution controls, have benefitted Guat. and other countries too,
    because the controls work well until they break, and only a few break.

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  • From Retirednoguilt@21:1/5 to micky on Wed Jan 24 09:20:16 2024
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    On 1/24/2024 5:59 AM, micky wrote:
    Some of the vehicles, especially chicken buses and trucks, but no where
    near all of them, belch black smoke in great amount here in Guatemala, especially when starting up hills, of which their are endless.

    I dont' think there is any required pollution inspecition, and it makes
    me think that the demands, largely from the US I think, for cars with pollution controls, have benefitted Guat. and other countries too,
    because the controls work well until they break, and only a few break.


    It all depends on where they import their trucks from. Even then, if
    either there aren't any pollution control laws, or no effective
    enforcement, the pollution controls may be disabled in country to
    improve mileage. I can imagine that in a poor country without pollution enforcement owners may make money by removing and selling the catalytic converters from vehicles that have them and welding in a plain piece of
    exhaust tubing to close the gap.

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to micky on Wed Jan 24 14:27:18 2024
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    On 2024-01-24, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
    Some of the vehicles, especially chicken buses and trucks, but no where
    near all of them, belch black smoke in great amount here in Guatemala, especially when starting up hills, of which their are endless.

    I dont' think there is any required pollution inspecition,

    There is no require pollution inspection here, either.

    --
    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Woozy Song@21:1/5 to micky on Tue Jan 30 08:40:09 2024
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    micky wrote:
    Some of the vehicles, especially chicken buses and trucks, but no where
    near all of them, belch black smoke in great amount here in Guatemala, especially when starting up hills, of which their are endless.

    I dont' think there is any required pollution inspecition, and it makes
    me think that the demands, largely from the US I think, for cars with pollution controls, have benefitted Guat. and other countries too,
    because the controls work well until they break, and only a few break.


    I remember working in Venezuela. After oil put tons of money into the
    economy, the peasants were buying used American cars, old crap that got
    shipped there. And the gasoline was made from high-sulphur crude that
    they couldn't export. So the air pollution was terrible.

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