marshg246
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Quite a few years ago, Washington DC (the city, not the Federal Govt) started switching to buses powered by CNG (Natural Gas without the stink added). CNG is much better pollution-wise than gasoline or diesel. This week the city council voted to make the buses free for any route that originates in DC. Those moves are good air quality and to reduce congestion.
In the 70s the air, especially in late summer, was almost unbreathable in DC. We hated the pollution controls being added to cars. The air is good now.
Electric cars, motorcycles, and trucks are good in their place. If I ever buy a new car, it will be plug-in electric. I only go to the grocery store and doctor in my car and the grocery store has free charging stations.
All that said, there is so much stupidity about "pollution free" and global warming. For instance:
1) Internal combustion engines run great and pollution free when converted to run on hydrogen - problem: hydrogen takes more energy to produce than it provides!
2) Burning coal or oil to produce electricity and then increasing the needed electricity is terrible for air quality and if you believe in global warming, terrible for that too.
3) If they said all new vehicles must be electric by some date - it would be much more reasonable and acceptable to most people IMHO.
4) The big car companies are already moving to electric so maybe the Govt should just shut up!
In the 70s the air, especially in late summer, was almost unbreathable in DC. We hated the pollution controls being added to cars. The air is good now.
Electric cars, motorcycles, and trucks are good in their place. If I ever buy a new car, it will be plug-in electric. I only go to the grocery store and doctor in my car and the grocery store has free charging stations.
All that said, there is so much stupidity about "pollution free" and global warming. For instance:
1) Internal combustion engines run great and pollution free when converted to run on hydrogen - problem: hydrogen takes more energy to produce than it provides!
2) Burning coal or oil to produce electricity and then increasing the needed electricity is terrible for air quality and if you believe in global warming, terrible for that too.
3) If they said all new vehicles must be electric by some date - it would be much more reasonable and acceptable to most people IMHO.
4) The big car companies are already moving to electric so maybe the Govt should just shut up!