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Originally Posted by Mavdog
can't agree that clean air is "over hyped".
the studies on the negative health affects of smog/ozone are very clear...it creates burdensome and costly health issues.
me, I'd rather pay more for a vehicle and continue to have functioning lungs.
apparently you don't have as much regard for your lungs (and other people's lungs as well) as I do.
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Does the amount of health savings to air quality equal 2,000 extra deaths per year?
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The National Academy of Sciences has linked mileage standards with about 2,000 deaths per year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that every 100-pound reduction in the weight of small cars increases annual traffic fatalities by as much as 715.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council said that the 35 MPG standard would save about one million gallons of gas per day. So how does that savings balance against the 2,000 fatalities per year that the National Academy of Sciences says are caused by those same lighter cars?
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