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From: "k.camplate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: discrepancy between Presidential polls
>Not knowing the total story about Houston,
> for the press to just blame their smog on Bush's governance and >laws is
> wrong. Now this might lead back to the Gore camp but cars and >trucks put
out
> a lot of pollution. Ah it doesn't matter, I don't care anymore.
>
I'm gonna avoid the political part of this discussion and relate what I see
(right or wrong) as a lifelong resident of Houston.
Houston is immensely industrialised. We have as many refineries and chemical
plants as any part of the country, and Houston has been like this my entire
life. The air here has always (as in all my life) been polluted. There is
often a haze in the air and ozone warnings have become common.
If you had grown up near refineries as I did, and noticed that the air
smells like the refinery much more than it does auto exhaust, you might
understand my bias against the refineries.
Because of its topography it is very understandable that autos could be the
main polluter in Los Angeles. But Houston, with its flat plains and
constantly changing weather shouldnt be as polluted as it is. Here its not
the autos so much as it is the industry and the grandfather clause that
protects them.
xponent
rob
