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All the cars on Planet Earth together cause the most pollution. Once someone has a car, they don't want to be without one. For that reason, the environmentalist keep fighting to have cars as non-polluting as possible.


On May 19 09:59 AM bobbobwhite wrote:

> Re auto pollution standards: All the concern is with cars. What about
> unregulated pollution from other sources that is never calculated
> into the auto figures or as a defined, specified contributor to overall
> CO2 pollution? These are construction machines, mining machines,
> buses, all sizes of cargo trucks, NASCAR, drag racers, sprint racers,
> all modified competition vehicles such as demolition derby participants
> and monster trucks, motorcycles, lawn mowers, gas trimmers and blowers,
> ATV's, outboard and inboard boat engines, gas generators, gas compressors,
> and much more. Everywhere you look there are many of these working
> every day, obviously adding greatly to the problem but never directly
> included in gov't studies.
>
> I have never read anything anywhere where the effects of the above
> machines were calculated into the overall air pollution figures.
> I truly would like to know the amount of CO2 they produce and add
> to the problem in comparison to that produced only by cars.