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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Nov 15, 2008 11:59 am) That is probably limited to PZEV cars and depending what part of So CA you live in. I imagine a diesel truck cleans the air it breaths in San Bernardino...  Though we were up there a couple weeks ago and could see the mountains. That was a real treat you rarely see in that smog trap of a city.
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Replying to: ruking1 (Nov 15, 2008 12:11 pm)
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 15, 2008 12:22 pm) While I do not think they are related to farming but on my last visit to GC, AZ, I noticed signs that cautioned one against the wild animals as CAN carry Hunta Virus and the plain old PLAGUE vectors. (aka the same plague that wiped out 1/3 of Europe. |
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| but to some elect they're natural "allergens" and they freak out those people's immuno-allergen-response systems so much that they soon have the "elephant on their chest" feeling. It ain't no fun that's for sure. Really scary! Some choice beta-agonist drugs work well in helping alleviate symptoms, and a MDI called Advair works wonders. It works well because it not only reduces inflammation in the bronchial tubes but it also has a 2nd agent in it that opens up the bronchial tubes wider while the inflammation is being reduced (no, I'm not being paid by it's producer to say this). It is an expensive drug, but, if it's properly used, no "rescue" inhaler such as Albuterol needs to be used. It is truly a maintenance drug, this Advair Diskus. And a very effective one. | |
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 15, 2008 11:21 am) Beware those with an agenda, they will get you every time. Let me ask this question. If asthma rates are linked to auto and factory pollution how come they weren't worse back in the 60's when autos and trucks put out 50 times more pollution? Also, where are these factories that the article speaks of? We have killed off any real industry in this country. You can't tell me there are more smokestack industries today than 40 years ago. A few years ago a company was trying to sell ultra-clean diesel engines to all the local school districts. Their sales pitch sounded an awful lot like that article. They even threw in "the children" getting asthma from sitting on the school bus for an hour. Our local leftie newspaper plastered their claims on the front page without checking any of the facts. I wrote to the paper asking one question. If the children are getting asthma from sitting on the bus for one hour, why don't all the bus drivers who spend as much as 15 hours a day on those buses have asthma too? Evidently someone started to use their brain for something other than a paperweight because no one bought those new diesels.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Nov 15, 2008 1:27 pm) In other GW news: "Transportation accounts for almost a third of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions, noted Margo Oge, an auto-emissions expert at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That's a problem of such scope, she said, that even the sweeping legislation aimed at reducing emissions 80 percent by 2050 that failed in the Senate this year wouldn't have made much of a dent." Experts Say Toughest Proposed Emissions Laws Won't Solve Climate Problem And, not really related, but you gotta love the street sweeper photo accompanying the story: China Reportedly Cool To Clean Diesel 
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 15, 2008 3:55 pm) |
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 15, 2008 3:55 pm) That is not what the consensus of the scientific UN report said. If memory serves me, it claimed transportation was 15% of all GHG. All the hand wringing over something they know mortal man has no control over is mind boggling. They want more taxes and try every scheme they can think of to stick it to the working man. We will get EVs and plug-in hybrids as soon as the technology is perfected. Raising gas taxes will not rush the technology. It will only hurt the little guy at the bottom of the food chain.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 15, 2008 4:46 pm) "In the USA, the rise in transport related emissions is officially projected to be as much as 46% within the next 20 years . In the emerging economies of China and India, the growth in transport related pollution has only just begun." Deutsche Welle Passenger cars account for 17% of U.S. emissions. WSJ
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