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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Trump demands CA address "Worst Air Quality" in US or lose highway funds |
| 2019-09-25 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #10 Why is socialist Cali's Gov meeting w/Xi Jangping, China's leader??? Is De Blasio & DNC head Perez next??? |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2019-09-25 15:38 |
| #9 There are logs from the Spanish Empire days commenting on the smog in the LA basin. Apparently the desert dust gets kicked up and the mountains surrounding the area keep it trapped. We've only made it worse with industrialization but it's never going to go away until they dome the city. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-09-25 14:42 |
| #8 ^ The southern California-based urban planning expert Joel Kotkin has written extensively on this stupid hostility to single-family housing, suburbs, and highways, the ridiculous attachment to density in a state with fabulous weather and a nation with tons of land, and all the damage it causes to families seeking to raise their kids in an affordable and pleasant environment. I believe Kotkin writes for City Paper, the same brave publication where you can find Heather MacDonald's excellent takedowns of the lies and BS surrounding BLM and accusations of "racist" policing. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-25 13:47 |
| #7 Every day California politicians devise new ways to make it more difficult for commuters to get to work in their cars. They convert car lanes to bike lanes. They put speed bumps on roads where the speed limit used to be 45 mph. They call it road diets. Yes, incredible as it sounds, this is a real thing that they really do. People are told to bike to work to prevent global warming even if their jobs are 30 miles from where they live. Politicians build new carpool lanes but never any new lanes for working stiffs who have no other option. They let hybrids and electrical vehicles into the carpool lanes but seem to forget that you have to burn something to charge the batteries and they never talk about how to dispose of those toxic batteries when they die. Mass transit in this state is a sick joke but they keep trying to make it harder and more expensive for people to get to work in cars. Just last year they raised the gas tax which was already the highest gas tax in the country. They want to force people into high density condo and apartment buildings near mass transit lines but the mass transit is dirty, dangerous and unreliable. Hobos, whackos and meth freaks ride for free but commuters are fined if they forget to renew their monthly passes. They keep pushing for more affordable housing for illegal aliens but they never do anything about the state's crumbling infrastructure. None of this actually reduces emissions. Newsom is an asshole. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-09-25 13:21 |
| #6 Most of the pollution is generated by freighter ships unloading plastic crap from China at San Pedro. Those guys burn tons of diesel every minute and the exhaust goes directly into the LA basin. Nobody says "boo" about it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-09-25 12:55 |
| #5 More homeless may mean fewer commuters. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-09-25 09:35 |
| #4 Yea, so? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-25 09:28 |
| #3 problem for California is that even with zero emissions from autos and mindustry there are natural sources (e.g., seepage) and area sources (e.g., vast housing tracts) that emit enough hydrocarbons to produce smog. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-09-25 09:27 |
| #2 California is seriously working on it, by 'driving' the middle class out of the state. The 'less people, less pollution' approach. Unfortunately, third world shit holes have shown that is not the case as CA evolves to that arrangement. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-25 08:44 |
| #1 "Pass them their own tobacco" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-25 08:22 |