Posted on 01/18/2016 7:25:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, La., last week, President Barack Obama told the audience that when Ronald Reagan was governor of California the smog sometimes got so bad that "people just wouldn't go outside."
"And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die," said Obama.
"I remember as recently as 1979, when I first started college--I started college in Los Angeles--when I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes I'd start feeling a burning in my chest," said the president. "And it was just me sucking in soot and smog." ...
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And moonbeams pappy was governor before Reagan, so why connect Reagan to the smog, it was there before him with a demonrat in charge.
He said when Reagan was governor of CA., of course the statement is ridiculous. I grew up in CA back then, and I remember days of smog, but pollution controls have been put in place all over. Didn’t a river in Cincinnati catch on fire too? What one man can we blame for that?
I don’t think that was all he was sucking in.
If he really cared about his lungs, why was he in the choom gang?
Smog in LA was bad like Beiging, but that was in the 50’s when Edmund G “Pat” Brown was governor, Jerry Browns father. It was much better by the 70’s
Second that, Jerry Moonbeam Brown was governor in ‘79. Sounds like the pain in 0Bamma’s lungs was due to his admitted excessive marijuana smoking.
Has smog ever been know to exist in areas that aren’t close to large bodies of water????
Politicians mandated the technology though. Nobody would have willingly done that to their car
Initially it added big $$$ to the sticker, added weight, required more servicing and cut the car’s horses in half
I am not a scientist, but as far as I know, that is not a factor. What are factors are climate or geographical features that inhibit the free flow of air: such as thermal inversions or mountains that form a basin. Mexico City is famous for its smog: it is inland, but is built in a former lake basin.
No. That was just the cloud of marijuana smoke that seemed to follow Obama around at the time. ;-)
The smog had been cleaned up a lot when the illegal alien obama migrated here from Indonesia.
When it was realy thick was in the 40s and 50s.
I blame color TV for all the liberal imports from the east.
They sat in front of their TV on New Years day watching the Rose Parade with all the spectators in their shirt sleeves with the mountains behind them and we wound up getting another half million freezing easterners moving here. Thats what turned California into a liberal sewer.
A lie.
Trapped air under the sun plus phytogenic VOCs equals smog.
Occidental College is in San Gabriel right up against the San Gabriel Mountains. It gets worse from there as you go east through Claremont to Riverside.
I see. That makes sense. Thanks.
And the Obamanation official history shall be corrected to reflect the indisputable fact that Ronald Reagan was indeed governor of California in 1979. Anyone who says otherwise is a dirty filthy racist.
“governor of CA” oops.
“What one man can we blame for that?” Bush who else.
Anyone remember the debacle when Chevron came out with their F310 Gasoline Blend?
We lived in SoCal from 1971-1973; always remember my grandfather visiting then and saying the smog then was nothing compared to the early 1940’s when they lived there.
He said there were days when you could barely see the sun—air pollution and smoke from wartime industrial production, steam locomotives, oil refineries and individual homes that burned coal for heating all were largely unregulated. Suits usually needed dry cleaning after one day’s wear.
He said the 1970’s were pristine compared to what he’d personally seen in earlier years.
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