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What a load of bloody salads we are in this country, it's another excuse for the BBC /EU. To go overboard 
Nothing at all here on the sarf coast.
Nothing at all here on the sarf coast.
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10x more die from air pollution than road traffic accidents
And it'll take a well paid eu bureaucrat to spout this useless information
Quite clearly cars are much too safe nowadays
And it'll take a well paid eu bureaucrat to spout this useless information
Quite clearly cars are much too safe nowadays
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I had to turn off ITV news.
FFS they were blaming the pollution on cars used in the UK (erm...most cars just give out water and CO2) then went on to mention CO2......THATS WHAT WE EXHALE!!!!
Please, everybody. Stop breathing. NOW!! Your polluting the environment
....Meanwhile another Enviro400 double decker trundles past spewing black smoke....why don't these have DPFs like my cars?
FFS they were blaming the pollution on cars used in the UK (erm...most cars just give out water and CO2) then went on to mention CO2......THATS WHAT WE EXHALE!!!!
Please, everybody. Stop breathing. NOW!! Your polluting the environment
....Meanwhile another Enviro400 double decker trundles past spewing black smoke....why don't these have DPFs like my cars?
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Yeah - *** pollution.
Vote UKIP - once we're out of the EU then their damned pollution will stay 'over there'
btw - It was pretty bad here today, and supposed to be worse tomorrow
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I see, so remaining "in Europe" entitles us to sue the **** off those pesky Arabs for having audacity to rain down dust on our green shores
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Going to be slapped with 300 million dollar eu fine
I don't think a single person has died. This is how the dinosaurs died out, but no we've a duty to save every single person and/or sue somebody
I don't think a single person has died. This is how the dinosaurs died out, but no we've a duty to save every single person and/or sue somebody
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It's only anti car in the same way that a story about a hit and run driver is anti car
It makes it a matter of (rather questionable) perspective. When you consider that despite pollution levels supposedly being at record levels for parts of this week, our air is nevertheless 100 times cleaner than Beijing's, you have to wonder whether that really warrants headline news coverage several days on the trot.
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It has been getting on my lungs this afternoon (yeah I do suffer allergin related asthma). Nowhere near as bad as when I've been in Bangkok. Or even Los Angeles, which is on a totally different scale.
But what it is IMO is sulphur (or a compund of it) or maybe magnesium or nitric, the metallic taste on my tounge is much like what used to be in the air when we used to have the steel foundries (all demolished now). The best way of describing it is it tastes like I have a 9volt battery on my tounge.
Sulphur emissions do not come from our cars, nor trucks. Not since it was removed from our fuel over ten years ago (hence the spate of problems with diesel high pressure pumps at the time), and even then it would be sulphur dioxide...a separatly controlled emission which is still very low when compared to the current levels of PM2.5. The same goes for nitrogen which has been controlled since the invention of EGR (fited to diesels since the last century). This pollution is partly comming from heavy industry not from the UK. I very much doubt its from British industry as well, lets face it we barely have any these days! And what we do have is strictly controlled.
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I've been playing with a 1982 W126 500SEC AMG today (just a AMG bodykit I suspect - the owner wants me to belive otherwise 
: ), which happily filled the workshop with fumes....the air was still cleaner inside than it was outside 
: ), which happily filled the workshop with fumes....the air was still cleaner inside than it was outside
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I conceed its actually a bit more than dusty.
It has been getting on my lungs this afternoon (yeah I do suffer allergin related asthma). Nowhere near as bad as when I've been in Bangkok. Or even Los Angeles, which is on a totally different scale.
But what it is IMO is sulphur (or a compund of it) or maybe magnesium or nitric, the metallic taste on my tounge is much like what used to be in the air when we used to have the steel foundries (all demolished now). The best way of describing it is it tastes like I have a 9volt battery on my tounge.
Sulphur emissions do not come from our cars, nor trucks. Not since it was removed from our fuel over ten years ago (hence the spate of problems with diesel high pressure pumps at the time), and even then it would be sulphur dioxide...a separatly controlled emission which is still very low when compared to the current levels of PM2.5. The same goes for nitrogen which has been controlled since the invention of EGR (fited to diesels since the last century). This pollution is partly comming from heavy industry not from the UK. I very much doubt its from British industry as well, lets face it we barely have any these days! And what we do have is strictly controlled.
It has been getting on my lungs this afternoon (yeah I do suffer allergin related asthma). Nowhere near as bad as when I've been in Bangkok. Or even Los Angeles, which is on a totally different scale.
But what it is IMO is sulphur (or a compund of it) or maybe magnesium or nitric, the metallic taste on my tounge is much like what used to be in the air when we used to have the steel foundries (all demolished now). The best way of describing it is it tastes like I have a 9volt battery on my tounge.
Sulphur emissions do not come from our cars, nor trucks. Not since it was removed from our fuel over ten years ago (hence the spate of problems with diesel high pressure pumps at the time), and even then it would be sulphur dioxide...a separatly controlled emission which is still very low when compared to the current levels of PM2.5. The same goes for nitrogen which has been controlled since the invention of EGR (fited to diesels since the last century). This pollution is partly comming from heavy industry not from the UK. I very much doubt its from British industry as well, lets face it we barely have any these days! And what we do have is strictly controlled.
They were both banging on about nitrogen dioxide and cars and how the highest pollution levels are where the motorway network runs.....FFS