There is a definite positive correlation between = driving vehicles and air pollution. If the air quality in minn did not change = then its probably because the particulates and fumes have been blown to the next community or state downwind. This is true for a lot of places. those = vehicle emissions had to go somewhere. air quality is just one factor. = pollutants are often washed into water and soil. ask someone who lives near an airport = and has a swimming pool. they get to skim jet fuel residues out of their = swimming hole.
 
I used to live in northern arizona and we often got = to deal with los angeles pollution despite the fact that there were few vehicles = where we lived.
 
If you remember the big dust storm the southwest had = last year. turns out that dust storm started in mongolia and swept industrial = pollutants from china to the US. Here in northern nevada we had very = poor air quality for over a week.
 
 
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From: Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM&g= t;
Date: Sunday, June 24, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: emission = tests are a fraud

He isn't saying that = polution is good, or that we shouldn't do anything about it.  He isn't saying = that polution isn't worse in other places than Minn.  What he is = saying is that a five year study showed that vehicle testing did not help.  = I haven't looked at the study, so I can't comment on the science, but if = it was done properly, more states should look into it.
 
Just because it seems = obvious that something is so doesn't make it so.  Emissions testing seems like = an obvious step to curb polution, but does it really help?  = According to Minn., maybe not.  Which uses more energy -- washing dishes in a = sink or in a dishwasher?  If you think the dishwasher uses more energy = then you have chosen the obvious -- and wrong -- answer.  Money and time = spent on "feel good" solutions that don't work is not only a waste, it diverts = us from finding solutions that do work.
 
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed DeBolt

mayby you have never visited los angeles, = houston, mexico city, bangkok, jakarta, rome, athens, bejing etc etc etc. =
 
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From: pederparizek <pederparizek@QWEST.NET>
= Now I know that I am new to the list and = everything, so I don't want to upset any tree huggers out there, but emission tests = are a fraud. We had them instituted in Minnesota about 7 years ago. The = state did a study over the next five years that showed that the emissions in = the state did nothing. That's right, they did nothing, neither went up or = down. So the state, in one of it's more intelligent moves, stopped testing = vehicles. That's right, I don't have to pay the $15 fee once a year, have = idiots mess with my car, or sit in a line for an hour. All of you out there = should petition your state government to get rid of these hassles, I mean = tests. Tell them to look at what they did in Minnesota.