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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by floren on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:38PM (#26574525)
Go to a car show and get a whiff of some pre-1970s cars driving around. Now imagine if every car on the road was like that. I can't imagine the stench of a city before the introduction of catalytic converters.
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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by fuzzfactor on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:13PM (#26576175)
You should have gotten a whiff Baton Rouge in the 1970's.

With the large refinery making fuel for far more vehicles than this one moderate-sized city could ever use.

And with orders of magnitude more emissions than the same noticeably smelly facilities today.

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by annoyingnoob on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:18PM (#26574891)
Worse the gasoline was leaded. Plus gas stations did not have vapor recovery systems and gas stations were pretty stinky places.
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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by ic0n0cl4st on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:02PM (#26574744)
Looking at pictures of highways from before caralytic converters and you notice that each lane had a pure black stripe from the exhaust.
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