Ronald Reagan's much maligned assertion in 1981 that: «Trees cause more
pollution than automobiles do,» may have more truth to it than most folks imagined.
President Reagan once opined that trees caused more
pollution than automobiles, a statement that was never true.
So someone who hears over and over again that «trees cause more
pollution than automobiles do» might use that incorrect fact to oppose environmental regulations.
And they worried continually at what he might come up with, as in his remark in 1981 that «trees cause more
pollution than automobiles» (a claim that scientists more than two decades later discovered to be not entirely off - base).
Not exact matches
Fueling the
automobile fleet primarily with ethanol rather
than gasoline might increase air
pollution, a new study finds
Based on their calculations, scientists concluded that within the area they found to have elevated
pollution from the airport,
automobiles contributed less
than 5 percent of the PN levels.
That is because California has often set standards more stringent
than the federal government's — for example its decades - long efforts to rein in
pollution from
automobile exhaust, including being the first state to mandate catalytic converters in 1975.
Be the product oil,
automobiles, pharmaceuticals, or stem cells, there will be issues of
pollution, safety, pricing excess, and ethics that will be decided more by the maximization of profit
than by good science, open communication, and popular opinion.