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The San Fernando Valley was called the land of a thousand smokes before there were cars. What changed? People stopped burning their trash.
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What changed is the creation of the EPA in 1970 - the only good thing that Nixon ever did. When the EPA was created strict laws on pollution were quickly put into place. In 1990 alone the EPA prevented 205 premature deaths, 672,000 cases of chronic bronchitis, 843,000 cases of asthma attacks, 18 Million cases of child respirator illnesses and a shitload more.
And just in Los Angeles alone, Smog Producing Compounds are down 98% since the 1960's.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In...A.-air-quality
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I took a year of Algebra and a year of Geometry and learned Trig in the Navy in one day.
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How to Learn Trigonometry in 9 steps (with pictures)
http://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Trigonometry. But what this has to do with why republicans want to stop you from learning science I have no idea.
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California has the strictest emission standards than any place else on earth.
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All states should follow California.
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Here's my problem with the government stepping in to help with global warming.
If they get involved, they will say we need more hybrid cars, that get closer to 50 mpg
Yet a few months ago, I sold a 81 VW pick up that got 50 mpg
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The Volkswagon caddy pickup truck 1.6 Litre engine gets only 34.1 Miles Per gallon, not 50.
If the government gets involved and says more hybrid or electric cars are required, it is because they have done their research. And in order to boost the sales, they will offer cash incentives and or tax credits to people to buy them the way they do now here in Canada and other places. Here in Quebec, the government pays you $8000 to buy an all electric car. They don't force you to buy one - they just make it damn inviting.
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Or they will want more wind farms, wanna know how many bald eagles were killed last year by those? More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin. Obama gave them a pass on killing bald eagles.
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Yes that is a terrible and tragic number for sure, but consider the tens of millions of birds lost to global warming, logging, and the constant ongoing oil disasters. We're talking entire species of birds here. Hopefully someone will figure out a way to reduce the bird deaths caused by wind farms.
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They will say we need to regulate polluting companies, that will make them move to china where they can pollute all they want. We're still going to breath the same air.
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So much wrong with this. "They" (the government) will not "make" anyone move to China. If the owner of the company is a cock-sucker like Mitt Romney he would move the company to save a few bucks instead of modernize of course. But the truth is that an investment in modernization to reduce pollution pays off in many different ways in the long term. The Canadian and the US Governments know this and already offer financial incentives to do this :
http://www.perkinscoie.com/governmen...ns-09-08-2008/
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You know that Arnold Schwarzenegger gave the BAY Bridge project to China? We built them a factory so they could build it, we trained them to weld, yet when after a short time from putting the thing in place, they had to close it for structural repairs!
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Thats right! Arnold Schwarzenegger, the republican you voted for, sold you out.
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Obama will want to give more money to battery powered cars that only the rich can afford
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So wrong, Vendzilla, so wrong.
Obama never gave money to any electric car company. The US Department of Energy LOANED $451.8 Million dollars to Tesla in California (An American Company, that employes American workers by the way). Tesla paid-back this loan 9 Years EARLY. Electric and other pollution reduction technologies can be a good investment.
Stop throwing up your hands, man... just dig a little to see whats under the surface and read some facts...
Cheers.