Snakes in the grass

Not to get off the subject, but with emissions standards in Calif.,
why the hell are they so stiff, when 30,000 plus vehicles cross into
Calif. a day from Mexico puffin' oil, coolant and whatever else out the
exhaust and drive right into San Diego. It don't make no sense, I
know I was the chief engineer at the border for 2 years and I've seen it
I should have registered my cars there.
As far as EPA stuff I too am a refrigration, boiler guy it is getting
really hairy as to some of the standards and BS., they are starting
to dream up.
One last item I heard from my lighting vendor yesterday is that your
fluorescent lites will be phased out because of the gases in them,
the fatter T-12 FL. lites will be history pretty soon. ..