Re:Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
by sergiosgc on Monday April 21, 2014 @06:19AM
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I don't know how it is where you live, but I pay about 60% tax on gas. This is quite common in Europe. How much more of the externalities do you want to burden drivers with?
Re:Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
by jessaustin on Monday April 21, 2014 @12:02PM
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Enough to make them drive less!
Re:Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
by thaumasiotes on Monday April 21, 2014 @05:33AM
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> Air pollution from cars kills 50,000 a year in the UK [0]. Apparently closer to 200,000 a year in the US.
So just to be clear... you're complaining that the US has five times the population of the UK but four times the deaths from air pollution?
Air pollution from cars kills 50,000 a year in the UK [0]. Apparently closer to 200,000 a year in the US.
But it's even worse than that. 1.24 million each year are killed directly by motorists.[1] There are more young people killed directly by motorists than malaria or aids.
And yet many people are happy to continue driving around.
It's not like this is unavoidable. Electric cars are here, we could move the pollution out of cities. We could design our cities to be safer for walking and cycling. We could invest in public transport and pass on the cost of some of the externalities of cars to motorists.
[0] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/22/air-pollu... [1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/