Cars don't pollute

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― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Unsurprising; right now I'm keeping a bemused eye on the McCain/Lieberman bill.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the kind of logic that gets you into "Saddam and Osama never existed" territory.

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

uh no, that's not what the agency said, although I can understand being misled by that article, which may make a good journalistic choice in its emphasis but in doing so arguably misdescribes the legal issue at stake, which is much better summarized here. a more accurate (but still facile) description of the opinion would be that the agency said that Congress had not yet told the EPA that cars pollute and that, as a Constitutional matter, if it wanted the EPA (part of the Executive branch) to do something about it, it (the legislature) had to write a new law saying so. not that I agree with the opinion by any means.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Years ago, I did this presentation on mixed mode environmental-friendly transport blah blah at this council meeting in north tyneside. Also there was a representative from thee smmt (soc of motor manufacturers & traders) Part of his spiel was that if you drove a brand-new shiny saab (yes, it pains me to recall) like his, it actually cleaned the air as it drove through it!!! that's actually what he claimed!!! The council people all laughed at him and i won. the end.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

people with cars pollute
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― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What the title of this thread misses is the fact (I have been told anyway) that modern cars (indirectly) create more pollution in their manufacture than they do in their lifetime's use.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 29 August 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Gee, good thing all the plants have moved to Mexico where they won't harm us

(*cough*)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.savonarolamustburn.com/rolls/0001/200308xx-w.jpg

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

mama, dada.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That's actually from my music video shoot two weeks ago.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

And I thought the pollution/disinformation/choking/stuffing subtext was pretty clear.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Ronald Reagan explain to us all ages ago that most pollution is caused by trees?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why would you regulate a pollutant that is an inert gas that is vital to plant photosynthesis and that people exhale when they breathe?" said Eron Shosteck, a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a car-industry lobby. "That's not a pollutant."

There's so many things wrong with this statement I don't know where to start.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The part that goes "an inert gas that is vital to" is particularly good, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 30 August 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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