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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: t4texas who wrote (27273)11/20/2003 3:49:43 PM
From: Archie Meeties  Read Replies (3) of 206097
 
T4, Here me out, even though though this might sound a little liberal for your tastes.

The costs from automobile pollution should not be looked at on a merely mpg/cost of car analysis. The two other relevant costs for you and me are;

1) Costs for supporting OPEC countries. OK, we can go around and around about this, but I think it's fair to say that all of us would rather not support the governments of Venezuela, Libya, Iran, etc.

2) Health costs. Here we can generate some hard numbers. Various studies basically have quantified how much of an impact polluted air has on various things like asthma exacerbations, hospitalizations for respiratory illness, and loss of worker productivity. This should be part of the national discussion about automobile energy efficiency/pollution. If these costs were factored in we would realize we are paying a much higher cost for energy.

For example
hbns.org
oma.org
methodisthealth.com
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