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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
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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

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