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Oct 23, 2013Explorer
smkettner wrote:
Our industry smoked just as bad in the late 1800s. Just not as much then. China is just going through the same phase but all production is now on steroids in comparison. I remember many days in the '70s where is was hard to see and painful to breath here in So Cal.
Do you have any idea how much sulfur was in a gallon of gasoline back then? And how much of it mixed with onshore flows, and fog, making sulfuric acid floating around in the air we breathed? Even a shallow breath lung full of that******stung and hurt like hell... as a kid in the San Fernando Valley, you could forget about recess in the early 1970's or going and playing a game of football after school, eyes burned and noses, throats and lungs too. And that was growing up on the clean side, the west end of the SFV, the side the onshore flow came from, it got much worse by Reseda, Van Nuys, then North Hollywood. Even riding your bike home from Junior High 3 miles was an exercise in torture and pain on a bad afternoon, and there were lots of bad afternoons.
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