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- From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
- Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
- Message-ID: <schuck.721854499@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <schuck.721519561@sfu.ca> <Xy74TB2w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> <schuck.721588018@sfu.ca> <1992Nov15.030707.5880@ee.ubc.ca>
- Distribution: bc
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:08:19 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
-
- >In article <schuck.721588018@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >>
- >>Air quality in Vancouver is deteriorating rapidly.
- >prove it.
-
- Are you blind? Can't you see the *brown* air.
-
- >>Asthma attacks are increasing astronomically.
-
- >prove it.
-
- I don't have the reference on me, but asthma attacks *are* on the
- rise, and the numbers of deaths is at a record level. I came very
- close a few years ago, until I started taking an inhalable steroid. I
- never had asthma until about 3 years ago. I can't prove it was caused
- by air pollution but it is a leading contender.
-
- >>
-
- >Like many of your statements, they tend to be sweeping, and without
- >even the benefit of some back-of-the-envelope calculations or
- >reasonable estimates. No one on the net expects a full research paper
- >to back things up, but perhaps something from an article or newsshow?
-
- I'll keep my eye open. You should too. There have been several articles
- in the paper and on the news about asthma.
-
- >Please quantify "detiorating rapidly" and "astronomically"
- >or "your gas taxes don't pay for it at ALL".
-
- I have been going to SFU and working at SFU off and on for 15 years.
- When you get near the top of the hill you get a good view of the city.
- 15 years ago the air was *not* brown. Now, more often than not on a
- sunny day, the air is *brown*.
-
- >The plese explain to me why air quality indexes in Vancouver newspapers are
- >consistently in the good to fair quality region.
-
- Good to fair? What standards! Fair is ok with you? I work at SFU and
- several times this year the air was less than fair as it seems all the
- pollution gets funnelled down Burrard Inlet and the SFU area is badly
- affected. I'm sure UBC fairs much better as it is on the water.
-
- >>It's time to inconvenience *some* people to benefit all.
- >>
-
- >fine. make people pay a market, cost-recovery rate for the cost of
- >the services they use.
-
- Sounds fair to me. Please start with the automoblie drivers first as
- they consume much more gasoline and taxes than transit users.
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