>>The natural flora (chapparal) of the area gives off a natural ingredient which
mixes >>with the coastal fog to produce smog. Cars merely exacerbate the
problem.
This is like saying that sperm only exacerbates pregnancy. Air chemistry and
composition studies affirm that the primary contributor to southern California
smog problems are emmissions from automobiles. It IS true that natural
geographic and atmospheric conditions are at work. It is ludicrous, however, to
imply that there was a smog problem before millions of automobiles arrived in
the area.
>>San Diego benefits from LA on days when the wind blows from the north and
>>east, rarely to be sure, but in 1992 when the EPA did their big one week smog
>>check, it was a howling Santa Ana and you could visibly see the smog flowing
>>down the coast off shore and coming up Mission Valley.
So where did the smog come from? And on days when there is no wind, El Cajon
and Mission Valley both have a smog problem. And, once again, air chemistry
confirms that the pollution is primarily the result of auto emmissions. Yes,
other factors are at work, but without the tons of emmissions from cars, those
factors would not create smog.
>>During our natural southwesterly onshore flows, most of the smog in San Diego
>>County is in Alpine a very small community in the foothills twenty miles east
>>of downtown. Most of this comes from Tijuana where there are no regulations
>>and there are three million people with inadequate sewage disposal, too.
Alpine, Ramona and El Cajon Valley have a smog problem most of the year, and
increasingly so during summer and early fall. The prevailing winds blow
south-east, but the air pollution moves northerly??
"Fascinating," said Mr. Spock, "I have not encountered this phenomenon before."
"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice, as the white rabbit disappeared once
again.
Air composition studies do not support the contention the air quailty problems
in San Diego, particularly east county areas, are significantly affected by
sewage.
>>In fact on a smoggy day in LA running the same 95 Saab WILL CLEAN THE AIR.
>>Fewer pollutants will exit the tail pipe than enter the FI!
WOW! Does anyone believe this one? I suppose one could make a case for it,
since it is gasoline that enters the FI and combustion by-products that leave
the tailpipe.
As for the attempted suicide, the failure of the effort proves only that he
couldn't raise the carbon-monoxide to a life-threatening level. No surprise,
unless his garage was fully sealed against any ventilation. Not likely.
>>Fully half the gross polluters I see in San Diego have plates that read
>>"Front B.C.", Mexican plates from Frontier Baja California! Are they going
>>to crush those?
I can't comment on what you see, though I must confess that you're other
statements discount your credibility. However, I have also seen the "Front
B.C." machines, and many of them are truly a problem. Just the same, any claim
that the rest of the cars -- yours and mine included -- are not contributing to
the problem is wishful thinking or denial of evidence.
Everybody wants to believe it's "the other guy." Folks, it's all of us. This
does not mean that we are all jerks for owning and driving cars -- old or new.
But we all need to face reality: there is a problem, and every car on the road,
to some degree, is contributing to it.
Denial only precludes us from making a rational rebuttal to legislation which
unfairly affects us.
Good driving to all,
Eddy - CA B382002639
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