The New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway that run the length of the State are heavily traveled by out of state vehicles , all pumping emissions into the air as they move between Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York to deliver goods and people to their destinations. Simply stated, to live and work in New Jersey means you must drive . Then there are the natural wind currents that always have and always will blow in from all the States to the west carrying tons of so-called pollutants. In New Jersey, they discovered that, when it gets cold, the system doesn t work at all. As a lifelong resident, I can tell you it gets cold here, especially in the winter.
Rain seems to have a bad effect on it as well.
It rains in New Jersey too. What we have instead are long lines, computer glitches, damaged cars and a Governor with the show-biz savvy to pretend she had nothing to do with it. To its credit, the newspaper never liked the idea. The drumbeat of propaganda about the State s air quality, however, goes back to a previous Governor s administration led by a fanatical environmentalist. The voters could hardly wait to vote Jim Florio, a Democrat, out of office, replacing him with Christie Whitman.