Maybe it is just a wasted use of stimulus money and once that well has dried, this will die on the vine...???

And yes, the whole thing is absurd. If where you are is at all like here, you don't need to set up road blocks to catch the hard to find polluters. Not where there are plenty of easy to spot smoke spewers all day long on the byways I travel. Just get out and drive around. That's what they get paid to do anyways, right?

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