TDI; was: Europe trip/Me too!

[JanDebL at aol.com]

You're are correct about CA's environmental position.  In the airline 
industry they are trying to force all the commercial carriers to get rid of 
their internal combustion engines on the ground service equipment, (baggage 
tractors, cargo loaders, etc.) and replace them with electric powered 
vehicles.  Proponents say this will help reduce the air pollution - opponents 
disagree that electric power will only shift the pollution to the power 
plants.  In addition there is no infrastructure for bring the power to the 
airports or distributing it.  Certainly we should be all striving to reduce 
pollution where ever we can but these fanatics with their knee jerk reactions 
are causing more problems than they are creating.  Examples include their ban 
on electric power plants construction and the rolling blackout problem makes 
it clear (at least to me) that some has not done their homework.  Its too 
bad, as most every diesel manufacturer both commercial and industrial, have 
made gigantic improvements in combustion efficiency and emission reductions.
Jan Lahtonen
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