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Tax Incentive * USA - Missouri lawmakers proposes for trucking firms
State lawmakers want to give tractor-trailer drivers and companies a sweeter deal for reducing noxious exhaust
pringfield,MO,USA -Joplin Globe (Joplin,MO)/The Associated Press -March 24, 2007: -- The large trucks that move goods through Missouri and across the country can idle for the equivalent of eight hours each day and 100 days a year while the truck is loaded and unloaded and when the driver rests... All this idling keeps the engine block warm and the living compartments lighted and heated or cooled, but it also spills carbon dioxide and other air pollutants into the atmosphere without getting the products in the trailer any closer to market... But the idling comes at a cost. Studies from the U.S. Department of Transportation show that 458,000 trucks, requiring heat 85 days per year and cooling 218 days per year idle, would use more than 838 million gallons of petroleum and produce 9.6 tons of carbon dioxide just by idling... If the trucks used generators that connect to the tractors and allow the drivers to turn off the engines while keeping the engines warm, they would burn two-thirds less petroleum and produce 80 percent less carbon dioxide...
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