Bad News For Environmentalists - The Air is Cleaner!

The Washington Times ^ | 10/9/04 | William Fay

[Entrepreneur]

Clean little secret

By William Fay

If all things we normally associate with air pollution grow — a robust economy and more people and workers consuming more energy and driving more vehicles more miles — we should have more air pollution, right?

Wrong.

Government data since 1970 (the year the Clean Air Act amendment was enacted) clearly paints a portrait of a healthy and growing economy: 42 percent more people and 95 percent more workers using 43 percent more energy, driving 111 percent more vehicles 151 percent more miles and a 175 percent boost in real gross domestic product. And yet the Environmental Protection Agency documents that America's air is dramatically cleaner and healthier.

Clean little secret

[Entrepreneur]

Note that the article points out that 7 out of 10 people think things are worse. Typical. The MSM and the left are negative whiners. Conservatives are positive doers.

[Heartland Mom]

Well, you know what Rush always says - it's sad that good news for America is usually bad news for the rats.

[leadpencil1]

Maybe the libs will suck on a tail pipe to reassure themselves that the air is indeed less clean that it used to be, all because of Bush of course.

[Yo-Yo]

But...but...don't you understand? If it weren't for the evil Bush administration rolling back 40 years of clean air policies, the air would be even cleaner than it is now!

</whiny nasal liberal treehugger voice>

[freeperfromnj]

As President Bush stated in Debate II -- The air is cleaner - those are the facts sir.

[woodb01]

bump for later read :) What a HOOT!!

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[dufekin]

According to the effete Euro-worhsipping enviro-wackoes, the only pollutant is carbon dioxide. (Fact: it's not a pollutant because it causes no significant damage to biological systems in the concentrations encountered in the real world.) Another Fact: Europe experiences episodes of real pollution far worse than anywhere in America, even L.A.

[OrioleFan]

No more E-Checks in Greene County. Not!

[Mark in the Old South]

Don't worry about dem litt'ol tree huggers. You will see a report how this is really a bad thing followed quickly by a report showing the old data was in error and everything is really getting much worse much faster and a revision of the standards that make everyone want to commit suicide rather than face the future.

[UCANSEE2]

CO2.

Well, maybe if we could get Kerry to just SHUT HIS MOUTH, the CO2 levels would go down some.

[Stellar Dendrite]

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