I have driven up state --lots of agriculture ---rice and things --they have
a quaint custom of burning off the fields --an amazing thing to see and
impossible to see through( or breathe) when you drive into one of these
smoky clouds that blanket the road and area--Maybe they need to change their
harvesting techniques-
Mike TR2inLA
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>From: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
>To: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>, "Triumphs"
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Dean Florez (was Question About Smog Control in England)
>Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 3:00 PM
>
>> According to an article in Saturday's LA Times, Kern county (where Sen
>> Florez is from) has some of the worst air in California, even worse than
> LA.
>> In an interview, he talked about kids not being able to breathe and
> whatnot.
>> I know from recent experience that it's terrifying to watch your kid have
> an
>> asthma attack.
> ================================================================
> Now Randall why should the folks 500 miles away be subjected to something
> happening in his district, pass a smog bill for his district not the entire
> state, and smog is not caused just from smoking or oil burning cars, the
> last reports I read talked about the worst polluters were the ==catalytic
> converters== as being the problems, anyway, whats bad for San Francisco does
> not mean it's bad for San Diego, here in N. Virginia we have emission
> inspection in only 6 counties out of over 50, so it is according to
> locations needs and not just a blanket statewide forced laws from special
> interest ($$$$) politicians, and I still bet he owns or has owned some car
> dealerships. "FT"
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