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MEXICOWANDERER
May 10, 2015Explorer
South of the Rio Bravo is intense industrial. Not saying CARB did not help. What I AM saying is that the last time I spent in Lozenges the breeze quit and things went ugly. The same for the Bayarhhea and Santa Rosa. When the good old fashioned 100F days made a delayed encore so did yellow-gray skies and eye-watering smog.
The Rio Grande valley has been infamous for pollution since the 1920's. Back then it was charcoal and firewood cooking fires. PEMEX has set mandatory regs for all gasoline to contain MTBE for the region - year round. It's a natural smog trap.
The "Vocho" was one of the worst polluting machines on the face of the earth. No air cooled engine ever made can hold a comparison to a water cooled engine in emissions or economy. Water cool a Honda generator and add direct fuel injection via ECU and you're talking 30-35% increased economy. Not practical but useful as an example.
The Rio Grande valley has been infamous for pollution since the 1920's. Back then it was charcoal and firewood cooking fires. PEMEX has set mandatory regs for all gasoline to contain MTBE for the region - year round. It's a natural smog trap.
The "Vocho" was one of the worst polluting machines on the face of the earth. No air cooled engine ever made can hold a comparison to a water cooled engine in emissions or economy. Water cool a Honda generator and add direct fuel injection via ECU and you're talking 30-35% increased economy. Not practical but useful as an example.
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