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This is true(r) in places like Los Angeles, where the limiting reactant in
the smog formation equation is hydrocarbons. If you shut the engine off, the
catalytic converter cools down and so is less efficient when you restart the
engine (until it's hot again). Hydrocarbons are in abundance in Atlanta, and
in fact, recent study has found that they would be even if there were no
humans here.

The limiting reactant in Atlanta (and most of the southeast) is not
hydrocarbons- it's NOx, which aren't particularly affected by catalytic
converters at all.

Despite my affiliation, I am not (technically) a scientist... just an
educated lay man who works in air quality research, and of course, my
opinions are mine and should not be construed to be an official
representation of Georgia Tech. I'll leave it up to the PhD's to make
official statements.

I will be sending Lee Morris an email commending his bravery for such an
unpopular measure that makes sense and will actually help us in our struggle
against an air quality problem against which we have not yet developed
effective remediation tools.

-Wes Younger
Southern Center for the Integrated Study of Secondary Air Pollutants
(SCISSAP)
Georgia Institute of Technology

"Ogier Le Danois" <Holger1@Mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> On 11 May 2000 06:36:02 GMT, Chris Sidi <sidi@angband.org> wrote:
>
> >Heeding the advice of Rudy Ray Moore, I eat out quite often.  I can't
find
> >anything on the web, but on Channel 6 I heard that they're considering
> >closing all restaurant drive-thrus over the summer to cut down on air
> >pollution by cars because ATL's smog is worse than LA's.  Restaurants
> >ain't even trying to hear that because they claim drive-thrus are 50% of
> >their revenues, Dave_Grohl("right, for real though.")  I don't know if
> >this would affect Krystal's though because their drive thru was broke
last
> >time I drove by.
>
> Lee Morris of the Atlanta City Council is the author of this bill.
> Send him email at  lmorris@ci.atlanta.ga.us, and say something similar
> to this:
>
> Please don't pass this drive through window law.
>
> Cars cause more pollution when the motor is shut down and then started
> up again than they do sitting idling for a short period.
>
> A soccer Mom with a car full of children is just going to drive a mile
> or more farther to do her banking and or fast food business in a
> different county rather than having to unstrap all of her children at
> each place and restrap them.
>
> The business establishments are going to lose over half of their
> business.
>
> Don't pass this silly "closing of the drive through windows" law.
>
> >
> >-Sidi (I can't remember who they are, some local or state govt committee)
>
> Ogier