Excellent news; thanks for the clarification. The inverted marine
layer is keeping what from dispersing, though?
Wish we were going the right direction in Atlanta, but I think it's
the opposite. We get regular smog alerts in the summer.
At 2:44 PM -0800 12/16/06, Billy Zoom wrote:
>According to the California Air Resources Board, the air in Southern
>California is currently the cleanest it's been since people first started
>moving here in the late forties. I do remember that greenish brown haze that
>used to hang over L.A., but I haven't seen it in many years.
>We still frequently get the inverted marine layer that visitors often
>mistake for smog, and there's always been some natural air pollution from
>the gasses emitted by the tar pits, but that's been around for thousands of
>years. I think our last smog alert was in the late eighties. They were
>frequent in the seventies.
>> I wish some of the EPA regs made more sense
>> to me (maybe I'm just too slow to grasp them) and I wish the lead
>> replacements currently used in gasoline had been more thoroughly
>> researched
>I agree. The reformulated gas we've been forced to use for over a decade
>hasn't reduced emissions at all, but it has raised gas prices, lowered our
>mileage, introduced a host of new air pollutants, and has been found to
>cause several types of cancer.
>BZ
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