Re: OT:Thanksgiving

In article <13l6e6iden87h8d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
HeyBub <heybub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

We have the
cleanest air (in the U.S.) we've ever had and we got it through increased
technology, not through trying to power our society from sunbeams or eating
free-range chickens.

Ummmm... it just might, possibly, have been that the technology that made
this cleaner air possible was spurred by the Air Pollution Control Act of
1955 (authorising research), the Clean Air Act of 1963 (authorised a
Federal program and more research), the Air Quality Act of 1967
(authorised enforcement), the Clean Air Act of 1970 (established
standards), the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 and the Clean Air Act
Amdnements of 1990... see http://www.epa.gov/eogapti1/module7/caa/caa.htm

Then there were the CAFE standards of 1975 (enacted by Congress as part of
the Energy Policy Conservation Act) and their associated penalties, see
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/cafe/overview.htm .

But... that cleaner air is only a technological coincidence, right?

DD

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