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Old 07-21-2021, 08:49 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Yeah now it's to the point where if every car was miracled to full electric tomorrow and California had the electricity to charge them from a source that makes no NOx, they would still occupy at least the top 6 spots for worst air pollution in the nation.

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I wonder if that has something to do with winds from the west and a large mountain range to the East to trap pollution. Not every city can be Houston, Miami, NYC, Chicago, etc and just let their pollution blow away.
Almost like they could have spent the last 50 plus years working that into the plan, but they didn't and are hopelessly stuck locking down those last place spots probably forever.
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