If you don't have much money, you're pretty much stuck wherever you are. If you live in a big city industrial neighborhood, that's where you spend practically all of your time, breathing whatever air is there, along with the pollutants of the day. Before you read the following news item, think about your Ford Taurus family sedan that will carry up to six people. Now think of a 3,432 horsepower diesel engine. Now, go totally out of your mind and think of three 3,432 hp diesel engines, and the amounts of pollution they cause.
Some folks always seem to be in a hurry, even in their leisure time.
The more air these leading public citizens burn up, the less is left for everyone else. In other words, any rich cretin in the U.S. who wants speed can buy it with absolutely no regard to what he does to the rest of the world. We all know that the internal combustion engine is the most important cause of air pollution. At last count, that I know of, the burning of fossil fuels releases 5.6 billion tons of CO into the atmosphere annually. Leading spokespersons for the fabulously rich are all for creating pollution, simply because they can afford to avoid it.