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> NY would need a lot of trash trucks which are only being manufactured outside the US.

Put them on a boat? Or are the legal hurdles to importing so high?




It becomes an ongoing maintenance problem even if you import them - if nobody in the US has experience servicing them, and nobody else is buying them, then you end up being the sole subsidizer of the cost of things like having a stockpile of parts around.




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