...fuel emissions are litigated like second-hand smoke, we have no hope in the US.

I wonder if a community could pass regulations that would go beyond EPA CAFE standards?

Stand next to a road and you get.... not farts of talcum power and wafts of lavender, you get the byproducts of burning petroleum in internal combustion engines.

If you care about your health don't stand next to a friggin arterial waving signs for a fringe candidate. (Sorry about the marginal candidate dig. I couldn't resist.) That, or buy all those drivers a zero emission vehicle. Or a bus pass. Or...

if you go to the farm yard you smell manure. Sorry Bert, you are too far out on this one.

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Asking for clean air is completely reasonable.

Farms are generally not public spaces. Roadways, streets and sidewalks are public, and people deserve to breathe uncontaminated and clean air. People should not have to risk their health in order to participate in free speech.

Maybe what we need are voter owned elections, so that candidates who do not have the support of the establishment, including the mega-corporations that have a stranglehold over society, do not have an unfair advantage.

I know that there's a group in Olympia working on just that, voter owned elections.

 lighter cars...

I've done a lot of hitch hiking and i know exactly what you mean. at least it's been cold out. nothing is worse than sucking down semi exhaust in kansas in 110 degree heat for hours on end.

standing on the side of the road is the pits. 

there is likely more risk to your body by riding the bike than anything you are breathing in. Some of that risk it due to some of the crappiest drivers in the nation drive here, but also the bicyclists frequently are their own worst enemy with their riding behavior.

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If you push regulating emissions, you'll be oppressing the lower income society. Most who drive older cars that are exhaust bombs are folks who can't afford the financial upkeep of what they have nor are they capable of buying something newer that would meet your opinion of health standards.

There's always those cute little paper medical masks. $2.00 a dozen. If they're good enough to prevent virus spreads to your lungs in hospitals, they're good enough to protect your lungs from those darn poor people who are poisoning you with their exhausts.

this weather, although record setting is not unheard of. June is traditionally a cool, rainy month. This year it's just more so. This is not to diss climate change and it's threat to our species, (and many other higher life forms) but to blame this anomaly on higher greenhouse gas levels is probably not accurate.

On a personal note I like this weather. As a fair skinned man of Northern European descent (Deutsch) who works outside, I do not miss the sun burn and the risk of melanoma that accompanies exposure to an unshielded thermonuclear furnace.

It's a memory kind of sky...

Don't eat meat, ride a bike...that's how you can brake global warming, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change said...

Because Rob W. has an epiphany from his hanging out on a street corner, we are suddenly aware of and worried about vehicle emissions, and our children breathing them, unbelievable.

Not enough real or fabricated gloom and doom for you folks?

If nothing else, you Greeners provide a huge comic relief.

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So we are "killing the earth" with a liquid that the earth naturally produces?

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

accused of. As far as my post above being abusive, it is far less so than many here making such accusations have done in the past, even recently. My post was kidding the faction here that are taking this post as seriously as they are. Seems the skin here on the blog is tissue paper thin. As for abusive types here, there probably is no one more abusive on Olyblog than Mike.

"A dog is not 'almost human', and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such." - John Holmes

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JT is the most abusive poster? Well first of all, I'm glad someone else took my crown of thorns from me and second, I wholeheartedly disagree. But then, you'd expect nothing less from me huh?

It's blatantly clear that if you don't agree with those who don't eat meat, don't like guns, don't want to paint the world green, don't believe in global warming, and so much more, you're considered the most abusive blogger(s) here.  You're talked down to, bullied, disemvoweled and deleted without any notice or reason why. You're not allowed to post anything that isn't hyperlocal with hyperlocal being defined by somebody elses opinion. We who don't share in your opinions or always agree with your statements just know thats the way it is.

Funny though, us supposedly abusive bloggers never call those of you who disagree with our statements or opinions abusive bloggers.  Nor do we demand apologies for every statement you make about us.

Bullying people to see and agree with your stances never works.

I would agree that sometimes I can be snarky, or sarcastic, but I really don't think it raises to the level of abusive.

My commenting is at a very low level any more, but as far as content, I do post an article or two every month. I don't think you are a high content person either, or have I missed something?

JPO, thanks for watching my six.

enpen, still trying to be a good boy.

Gug, you don't make me want to puke, but your arrogance does sometimes. Don't personalize things, I thought you were one of those with some thicker skin. If JPO and Norm like you, you can't be all bad ;-)

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for me to have any concerns about marginalization here on Olyblog would mean I believed that I derived any power or status from the majority of this group, I don't believe that for a second, nor do I seek it.

As for my co-workers, judge them on their behavior/comments, not mine. Just as you would expect others to judge you on yours alone.

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