At 05:55 PM 8/25/00 -0700, Brian Kemp wrote:
>I was listening to a guy of unknown credibility talking about sources of
smog.
>He said private automobiles were a minor source of smog. I don't remember
most
>of the specifics, but one of the things he said was that a single jet
taking off
>from LAX polluted more than all the Honda's in Los Angeles County. He also
>commented about trains and trucks......
>Any comparison about the hundreds of pounds of lead in the typical electric
>vehicles vs tailpipe emissions or a regular gasoline engine and natural gas?
I don't have any real facts, but I've heard that 80% of the polution from
cars come from manufacturing. The moral, stop building new cars and let
us keep our old ones on the road!
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
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