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In article <2i8sob$qb@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> waele@seas.gwu.edu (Wael El-Sharif) writes:
}In article <2heq61$lfv@access.digex.net>, John <jb@access.digex.net> wrote:
}>Why pick on car owners?  Industrial pollution is a much more severe
}>problem.  Car emissions are already so low that they are a minor factor
}>in pollution problems.  If you must go after transport vehicles, go
}
}The transportation sector accounts for about 30% of CO2 emissions compared to
}34% for the industrial sector - that is not "low." 

CO2?  CO2?  CO2 is what you get when you burn hydrocarbons in the
presence of oxygen, no matter what kind of 'pollution control' you
use.  It is also nontoxic to animals and essential for plant life.  It
isn't pollution.

(it is a 'greenhouse gas', but that's a separate matter entirely)

}>after busses, trucks, trains, etc.  Have you ever followed any tractor
}>trailer trying to accelrate?  You can be blinded by the billowing smoke.
}>One truck can pollute as much as 1000 cars.
}>
}The "billowing smoke" does not translate into harmful emissions. Buses for
}example, run on diesel fuel and emit less CO than cars per vehicle mile
}traveled.

That billowing smoke is not good to breathe.  Particulate matter is
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