Mexico cleans up its fuels.

Mexico announced today it is introducing  new, low-sulphur fuels in an effort to reduce pollution.

The new, low-sulphur premium gasoline being offered at state-owned Pemex stations will contain 88% less sulphur. Low-sulphur diesel also being introduced will contain 97% less sulphur.

The new fuels will put Mexico on a par with standards set by its NAFTA partners, Canada and the United States. The move may help ease concerns by the United States, which in 2004 sought to block Mexican commercial trucks from operating across California and Arizona because they failed to comply with U.S. environmental rules.

Mexican officials say that wasn't entirely the reason for adopting the new fuels.
An economic impact study that looked at the costs of lost work days and reduced productivity from high rates of asthma linked to air pollution helped convince Mexico to switch to cleaner fuels, officials say. The black smoke produced from an engine running on high-sulfur diesel fuel, causes health and breathing problems such as asthma and helps create higher levels of smog.

My thanks to our friends at the Inter-American Dialogue for alerting me to this news. The Dialogue puts out a weekly 'Latin America Energy Advisor.' For more details, visit www.thedialogue.org 

- David Adams

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[Rose]

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