Why are 4 out of 5 of the worst polluted cities?

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Liberal/Blue State cities?  That works out to 80% and of the top 25 most polluted it looks like 17 are are cities in Liberal states (72%).  And don't say because they are in sunny places like L.A., Pittsburgh is in the top 5 (New York and Philly are in the top 25) and no cities in Florida are in the top 25, it's because of cars, not sunny places.

I thought the Libs were concerned about the environment, if they really cared, wouldn't they all stop using cars and unnecessary use of electricity (since most electricity is generated using coal)?  

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-most-polluted-cities-2010

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Liberals really don't care about the environment - they are interested in LEVERAGING the "crisis" to get more power and money.

Cap & Trade is a MASSIVE TAX INCREASE which extracts and extorts money at every level - based on a IMAGINARY UNIT... called the FOOTPRINT.

Pelosi - flies from CA to DC a few times a month at the cost of $40,000 per trip (one way) in a BIGGER plane we bought her because her Boeing 727 wasn't bug enough - rather than flying commercial at a cost of $500.00 - and creating the SAME FOOTPRINT of  18,000 cars an hour.

Do you think THIS makes an impression on her?   (Hint:  It's a two letter word, which rhymes with "go")

The trains will run on time! · Answer

There was an article on Earth Day about just how polluting things like the Internet, hybrid cars, bio-fuel, etc. really are.  It seemed that the message of the article was that cutting way back on driving and energy use is the only solution.  But around here (Maryland), the rich Libs (2/3rds of all Marylanders are Democrats) the roads are clogged with SUVs (with Obama/Biden stickers) and hybrids (with Obama Biden stickers).  There are traffic jams even on weekends, even though there is a highly developed public transportation system.  They all seems to want other people to cut back or be inconvenienced by conserving energy.

Anonymous · Answer

Oh lord...who cares. Red states have the highest concentration of welfare recipients, and I thought Republicans were concerned about getting people off welfare. We can go back and forth all day over this but in the end, using these statistics to try to correlate with Lib/con is just a useless comparison and has no real basis in politics.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html

PS to Stanley...Oh look the totally debunked Pelosi plane lies...jeez do a google search...not a WORD of truth but not stopping you, huh?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/09/pelosi.plane/index.html

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/pelosi-plane.htm

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/pelosi-plane.htm

Nom de Plume · Answer

More people means more pollution. It's as simple as that. If you needed a study to learn that, I only have one question for you. Who read the results of the study to you?

@mike, Interesting, So a conservative city of 200,000 can pollute more the a liberal city of over 8,000,000. Maybe instead of addressing that to me, you should point that out to Yo it's me.

ila · Answer

Most of the federal superfund toxic clean up sites are former recycling centers.

Lkn4trouble · Answer

Liberals aren't concerned with the environment...they're just trying to make a cash cow out of it!

Alex B. Linux Revolution · Answer

Yeah and DOW Chemicals contributes more pollution than pretty much anywhere

Anonymous · Answer

red states also along with less pollution, they have less crime, more diversity, more wildlife conservation, more chairty givers, less state govt debt, lower taxes, more liberties.

Anonymous · Answer

Because of the neocon owned industries located there.
The people who WORK in those industries are liberals and vote Democrat.
The polluters are all neocons.
Hope that helps.

Paul ® Total Moron · Answer

Because rivers flow to the oceans,it is geographical not  political.

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