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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: 23 Oct 2024 12:30:04 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <vfaq8c$po2$1@panix2.panix.com> References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <vf6026$10842$1@dont-email.me> <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> <lmQRO.69417$MxR.12614@fx47.iad> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="11053"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 2225 Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote: <about LA smog> >Having lived there, I can confirm that it is far better than >the 70s and 80s. I recall playing softball one saturday >in 1985 and having to stop between home and first to catch >my breath. And this is in great part due to government regulation of auto manufacturers, first in California but then across the US. Car manufacturers fought the emission control requirements tooth and nail, and most of the early attempts they made to meet them were incredibly poor and reduced both performance and reliability. Eventually they were driven toward closed-loop fuel injection control and then the world changed for the better in so many different ways. Eventually the emission control requirements wound up resulting in a better technology with higher performance and better reliability as well as a lot less smog. >On the other hand, it's worse now that it was a decade >ago, simply due to population growth over the last >couple decades (and wildfires). Electric vehicles still pollute, it's just that the pollution is done at the power plant many miles away where it isn't visible. BUT, electric vehicles only use pollution-causing power when they are running, not when they are immobilized in traffic on the 101. Cars in LA seem to spend as much time stopped as moving, and so electric power is likely to be a win. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."