There is a supposed consensus that large amounts of people are dying due to diesel exhaust?

Regardless of the legislation, the idea that fine particulates from diesel exhaust aren't bad for your health is probably as accurate as cigarette smoke isn't bad for you. Argue the rules and regulations all you want, but that won't change the fact that people's health is adversely affected by this stuff.

If you don't like the proposals, counter them with your own. Don't pretend that the threats don't exist. That's just lazy and stupid.

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I can't watch the video. Not sure why... Maybe it doesn't like Windows 7, WMP 11 or something. It says it will work with Firefox 3 and I have 3.5.8, so that shouldn't be a problem. I'm not going to install Silverlight just to watch it, since I've *never* needed it for anything else, including Microsoft pages that I've visited. On the other hand, it also says that my firewall may be the problem, but I'm not about to go poking holes in my firewall to watch it, either...

Have another link where I can watch it that isn't so finicky?

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Just because CARB claims a 'Consensus' doesn't mean there is one, especially outside of California.

I can recall a scientific consensus that 'No life in the Oceans exist beyond the reach of sunlight', then they discovered Deep Sea Fumerols with abundant life along the Mid-Sea Volcanic Rifts.

There have been other forms of Consensus in the past...'We can't break the sound barrier'...'We can't produce submicron images using White Light'...'We can't put a man on the moon'!

CARB will need to produce Published, Peer-Reviewed Studies before I consider it. But then again, their Over-Taxation & Excessive-Fee State policies have seen 'The Big Three Automakers' and 'Semiconductor Manufacturing' leave the state...all pre-Schwarzenegger. Hell, even more Hollywood Movies are made outside the State now. You'd think the Left would learn after forcing the Bankruptcy of the Wealthiest State in the Nation and the severe economic status of Orange County, the wealthiest county in that State!

Are you denying that there's been premature deaths from long-term exposure to PM2.5?

yes we need to ban all diesel engines, that means no trucks, no trains, no bulldozers,no tractors, it'll be utopia, and think of all the lives saved, and no one will be even slightly affected

I can't believe that diesel exhausts and particulates are doing us any good