wnjj wrote:
JRscooby wrote:
KD4UPL wrote:
It's amazing how someone can think their way of life needs to imposed on everyone else even though they don't understand other people's way of life.
Yes, the whole world must comply with our way of life, no matter if our grandkids have no clean air or water
The 1970’s called. They want their clean air and water argument back.
Back in the '60s, working in fields about 50-60 miles from downtown KC. Week-10 days without rain, we could see the haze over the city. Pollution controls started, and we witched about "ruining our life" Mid '70s, running OTR, I saw the haze over cities all over the country. 3 decades later, air in most places is cleaner, and a lot more cars driving a lot more miles. It is a fact the pollution controls have helped.
Now was the auto industry and technology ready for the regulations? Bell no! My '73 Nova burned nearly twice as much gas as my '72 Super Cheyenne. But because of market forces
and government regulations ICE cars run much cleaner, and burn much less fuel.
For at least a hundred years the American standard of living has been based on US using more resources as a percentage of the population then the rest of the world. And most of the energy we have used has been burning fuels, degrading air world wide. We can't keep forcing our way of life on the rest of the world.
