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jake @ Mar 4th 2008 7:41PM
@Luis
If you haven't lived in a big city you probably wouldn't understand...local pollution by cars can be a huge problem and it mostly affects the local population, lingering for quite a while. Just look at some of the pictures of beijing today and you can see how horrible the smog is from the cars/mopeds and it's mostly local (I've been there and on bad days the sky has a hazy light brown fog and the air feels very stuffy). By the time it reaches other states, the pollution would scatter and spread out. There's the argument right now that CA is much better now and doesn't need the waiver. In that past this was definitely not true, esp if you look at LA.
Luis @ Mar 5th 2008 1:22PM
@Jake: thanks for the response, but if you read what I wrote I mention that standards are good "IN CLOSE PROXIMITY"...I have lived within 20 miles of L.A. most of my life and am very aware of the smog problem. But my point is the the smog isn't a California problem, it's an L.A. problem. I think these regs should be more localized.