"These buses are going to be used long into the future."
Then the oil ain't running out anytime soon, huh? And the $$$$?
And WHY am I going to have to have a fart meter to capture my "carbon fecesprint?"
"State targets school bus pollution; Looking to install controls by 2010" by Jonnelle Marte, Globe Correspondent | June 13, 2008
LYNN - Standing between two school buses full of children, Governor Deval Patrick announced the rollout yesterday of a statewide initiative to reduce air pollution emitted from the vehicles.
The plan to retrofit about 5,500 diesel-powered school buses by 2010 is part of a deal meant to offset pollution from the Big Dig....
Taxpayers still paying for that debacle, too! Point made, readers!!!!
The pollution controls will be installed using $16.5 million in state and federal funds.
Sigh! Just like what Ron Paul said!
"We presently follow option number two: everyone seeks to use government to enrich himself at his neighbor's expense...."
Of course, I want pollution cut and I don't want kids getting poisoned riding the bus; however, WHAT TOOK SO LONG if it was OUR KIDS, and WHERE are the GREEN BUSES?
After all, SCHOOLS are pushing the GLOBAL-WARMING CULT the hardest!!!!
Also see: Boston's School Crises
The initiative, called MassCleanDiesel, is aimed at reducing the amount of pollutants schoolchildren are exposed to, said Patrick. A 2006 state Department of Public Health survey found that 1 in 10 students in kindergarten through eighth grade have asthma, which can be aggravated by diesel exhaust.
Which is CAUSED by POLLUTION!!!
And it is being AGGRAVATED when they hop on the bus?
"MassCleanDiesel will make that ride to school healthier for children on the bus and for those communities along the way," he said.
Filters attached to the engines and exhaust systems of the school buses - at no cost to bus companies - are intended to dramatically reduce the exhaust released into the air and bus cabins.
How about not running them at all? Home school!!!
Ed Coletta, a spokesman for the MassDEP:
"The environmental side of it would be that you're going to have up to 5,500 school buses that are now up to 90 percent cleaner in the emission they give off to the environment. These buses are going to be used long into the future, and we want to make sure they're emitting as few gases as possible."
Pffffffffffftttt!!!
Take that, global-warming cultists!!
By the way, it was FREEZING HERE LAST NIGHT!!!
