On a side note, we just now returned from a mandatory but dreaded journey to the VA grounds on Fort St. It was a “Sweltering” 75 degrees today and casual observation would indicate that four out of five vehicles, even the little dual fuel shoeboxes on wheels, had their windows up and the air conditioning on. I’ll bet THAT lowers fuel use and hydro carbons. But since the SMOG in our little aquarium just CAN”T be from MORE people moving here, why not? It would seem that even many of the green people are actually a closeted brown color.

Air pollution is an issue that needs to be addressed at the State and Federal levels, since emissions easily travel past city and county boundaries. However, OUR State gov’t, in its current form, is most certainly incapable of solving the problem.

So how can the problem be tackled? Let’s look at LA. LA’s air, though still bad, has improved greatly since the late ’70s. How? South Coast Air Quality Management District, that’s how. Google it, and learn.

Of course you native Idahoan types would never ever go for the onerous restrictions mandated by South Coast AQMD. By gamby, them there’s californy folks.

EDITOR NOTE– An ordinance simply stating, “Thou shalt not pollute” …whether from Canyon County or Chicago will do the job. Our law today says locals have to be INSPECTED, but allows vehicles from the entire USA to pass through and pollute. We stop them if they drive drunk or speed however.

That statement reminds me that in days of yore Boise didn’t have smog, it had “Haze.”

You can call it anything you want, but if you call it anything other than pollution, you’re got yer head in a hole a lot darker than anything an Awstrich ever imagined.

These days Boise has two types of weather, winter inversions and summer high pressure ridges. In cowpoke terms, we’ve either got cold smog, or hot smog.

My brain isn’t what it once was, but I can’t recall any of the hands on the lee side of the ranch ever claiming that there were “a lot of factors” that contribute to the size of the pile in the feedlot. You can take this to the bank; the more cows you put in the pen, the faster the manure piles up.

There are some problems you just can’t “grow” your way out of. Until someone around here is ready to try something a tad more imaginative than “more sprawl”, the soup is jes gonna get thicker, deeper and more air-o-matic.

Then when ever we walk through a parking lot we can paste them on the bumper’s of the 4X4’s and SUV’s. Maybe that will get there attention.
Might be illegal!