I live here in the valley and you can feel it like taking a punch from Mike Tyson in the lungs
However it used to be far worse back when everyone was using leaded gas here in the 70s.
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Re: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Masks help with particulate, which I think is Asia's core problem (from all the coal). But most bad-air US cities struggle with ozone, and I don't think masks help with that.
Would just note that it depends on the mask. They often have a large amount of leakage, and can give a false sense of security. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-airpollution-masks...
A couple of hours in Manila’s traffic on a motorbike coated my ears with black dust. If you can even just reduce that intake by 30%, your lungs will be happier.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
This plan would only incentivize trucks to have a big enough gas tank to drive from Nevada to LA and back. The entire cost would pass directly to consumers. Before you think that's isn't possible, it's not uncommon for a semi to have a range of 2000 miles.[1] 1 - https://www.quora.com/What’s-the-average-range-for-a-diesel-...
I suspect the issue with truck pollution at the LA ports is idling rather than driving.
Is idling legal in the US? It's been forbidden in the UK since 1986 or before (Road Vehicle Regulations (1986)) although not very enthusiastically enforced. Similarly in Scandinavia.
Re: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
#84A neat perk of iOS/watchOS 12 is that it now supports Air Quality in the Weather app/Siri, which has been very useful over the past few days!
Why is it useful? What do you do about it?
Re: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
#85If interested, here is a link to the air quality index, as measured by purple air monitors: https://www.purpleair.com/map#11/34.0244/-118.4531 The map extends worldwide, but only reports data from those who have purchased their monitors.
I'm quite concerned about air quality in the UK but according to that map everywhere in the UK is "good", even London.
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#86Truck traffic in LA is by far the problem, not so much the car traffic (though that is horrible, based on the population). Ships come into Long Beach, the containers are offloaded, the trucks begin a lumbering journey to points East. Belching all the way. I'm not making up the claim. California rules put in place over ten years ago had trucks retrofitted or whatever, and this change to TRUCKS ONLY was like removing 3…
Don’t forget that in 2015 the NAFTA requirements that allow Mexican trucks on US roads were fully put into effect so now we’ve got heavily polluting Mexican trucks on Southern California roads now.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
So.... my MEP calls the LA Times to forward my complaint? If I would want to complain, why should I not tell them directly? If you want to claim it's an issue of that much discussed EU law, plenty (or even most) of US websites don't have an issue serving their content to me, from NY Times, Washington Post - even Fox News has no problems (I would suspect them to be the first ones to complain about the EU)! To me that…
The LA Times has decided that the cost of compliance with GDPR is not worth the effort since they don't get any ad dollars from Europeans. That's because the GDPR is such a quagmire that it requires expensive consultants to audit compliance, and since it is untested in courts, they're not even sure they are in compliance when they are done. A lot of local US papers have made the same choice, the LA times just happens…
I refer back to what I wrote. I wish you would have read my comment instead of being in "auto-reply" mode, because it sure looks like you completely ignore 100% of what I wrote. Seems to me like you just wanted to say your prepared talking points that you picked up elsewhere.
Re: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
#89Truck traffic in LA is by far the problem, not so much the car traffic (though that is horrible, based on the population). Ships come into Long Beach, the containers are offloaded, the trucks begin a lumbering journey to points East. Belching all the way. I'm not making up the claim. California rules put in place over ten years ago had trucks retrofitted or whatever, and this change to TRUCKS ONLY was like removing 3…
Don’t forget that in 2015 the NAFTA requirements that allow Mexican trucks on US roads were fully put into effect so now we’ve got heavily polluting Mexican trucks on Southern California roads now.
Is there a quota on that ? If not, I predict this will follow the same pattern it took in Western Europe, where low-cost of labor Eastern Europe companies are slowly taking over long distance trucking. The limiter of the rate of change is the number of available EE long-distance drivers, which the companies hiring have vacuumed clean.
Re: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
#90Truck traffic in LA is by far the problem, not so much the car traffic (though that is horrible, based on the population). Ships come into Long Beach, the containers are offloaded, the trucks begin a lumbering journey to points East. Belching all the way. I'm not making up the claim. California rules put in place over ten years ago had trucks retrofitted or whatever, and this change to TRUCKS ONLY was like removing 3…
I wonder if Tesla's truck fleet could help change the situation