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Re:EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards by oh_sigh on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:55PM (#25340667)
I didn't realize this until 10 years after I started feeling these feelings, but diesel exhaust elicits a strong feeling of nostalgia in me from my travels throughout Europe. I would be occasionally reminded of it in the United States but I never knew what it was until I stood next to an idling 18 wheeler
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Re:EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards by cameronh90 on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:36PM (#25340986)
Diesel exhaust smells like ice cream to me. I assume it's an association from diesel ice cream vans as a kid.
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Re:EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards by xyzzyz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:01AM (#25343018)
I have similar association between bottled propane smell and cotton candy — cotton candy vendors around here used gas powered machines, which must have leaked during operation.
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Re:EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards by TedDoesntTalk on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:16PM (#25341701)
I have the exact same nostalgia from that smell, although I was fortunate enough to know what it was at the time (“exhaust” not diesel specifically).
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Re:EPA declines to tighten soot pollution standards by perardi on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:02PM (#25340723)
Sigh, oh, that lovely passage in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time when he writes of diesel exhaust…
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