Nuclear cars, buddy. Wave of the future.
So, you're suggesting that the Administration ought to recruit Al Gore over to its side for a regime change effort?
It's probably a bad sign that I don't see that as being particularly serious smog. Maybe it's the picture.
This picture is mislabeled since it represents a quite clear day. This is a not-as-clear day. The two photos were taken from the same angle.
Fifteen years ago, that's what the Bay Area looked like on still days. Emissions standards really have made a huge and immediate impact on air quality.
The other stuff you're talking about sounds worse--although, when my English ex-roomate returns to NYC after a long visit home, she complains of pollution-induced headaches and nausea for at least a week before she acclimatizes.
The other stuff you're talking about sounds worse
Totally. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and my mom the same. Her in the pre catalytic converter years. But it was never like what Ogged describes, not even close. Soot on nostrils? Holy shit that's a lot of particulates in the air.
In my old NYC apartment where we kept a few windows open year-round, we had to bleach the interior windowsills four or five times a year, and we were still losing the battle against soot.
Soot-ringed nostrils after half an hour, though. Yeech.
Go nuclear!
Trust me, fallout is much worse than smog.
Wow, living in the clean air of Wilkes-Barre and Pittsburgh all my life, I never really took seriously the idea that people in world-class cities could have their lives damaged by soot in this day and age. Being connected to distant people on the internet really opens your eyes.
(this comment is not meant as facetious, except in the reference to Pittsburgh as a particularly non-sooty city, which is in fact true)
If you thought the price of gas in the US was too cheap, it's about five times cheaper in Iran. Which I guess should lead to increased pollution, but I'm still surprised that it's that bad. Sucks. International cap-and-trade for pollution controls? I know that Western European companies are paying Eastern European companies to bring their factories up to some semblance of cleanliness so they don't have to improve theirs; no reason this couldn't work for catalytic converters and closed-loop fuel injection in Iran.
living in the clean air of Wilkes-Barre and Pittsburgh all my life
One of the more annoying things about hailing from the Pittsburgh region is the number of people who still think it's sooty and polluted, even though the steel industry crashed 30 years ago. What is the city doing wrong that they can't even convince people there's no soot?
What is the city doing wrong that they can't even convince people there's no soot?
Not bathing, maybe?
Nuclear--or perhaps solar. Or wind. Solar-powered electrical plants + electrical cars = nirvana!
I know I sound like a hippie. It's okay, I live in Cali now.
I see the refuse, but where's the car?
Not cool, B, spittin' on my childhood like that...
