Study blames diesel for deaths

Metrowest Daily Lunatic ^ | 2/23/05 | Brodkin

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I love watching the narcissistic Californian tourists jogging down the sidewalks along Route 66 with the 18 wheelers roaring through their gears 6 feet away from them. I think to myself "These are the folks who move here and vote to make it illegal for me to smoke a cigarette in a bar." Serve you right you self-righteous sons-of-b**ch's!

[Mears]

Nationwide, diesel pollution causes 21,000 premature deaths each year, including 475 in Massachusetts and 81 in Middlesex County, robbing those who die of an average of 14 years of their lives !!!!!!!

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Well,well,well! Since I am a smoker who has lived in Middlesex County for many years, I hope my city will ban diesels the way they banned smoking many years ago.

[Madame Dufarge]

including 475 in Massachusetts and 81 in Middlesex County, robbing those who die of an average of 14 years of their lives

Having been born and raised in Massachusetts, I say this is a small price to pay to get out of there.

Where's the "study" that proved that being a conservative reduces your life span to 45 years?

It's got to be out there somewhere, I just can't find it yet.

[Gabz]

Don't tell me the poor baby lost her cushy job! LOL!

That would be priceless, wouldn't it????????

ROFL!!!!!!!

[csvset]

Another German responsible for an efficient killing machine.

[Gabz]

I believe it. I know a person who lost his driver's license over a DUI while he was riding a bicylce and another guy that was riding his lawn mower.

I think when they finally reqrote the Delaware DUI law, to avoid the bicylce situation, they worded so that yu couldn't get a DUI on a horse anymore either.

[Gabz]

I hear you.

A similar article, taken from the same "study" (and I use that term lightly) was in the Delaware paper this morning bemoaning the fact that one of little DE's 3 counties ranks in the top 50........I don't understand that.

the entire reason they banned smoking indoors everywhere but private homes was to get rid of the cancer threat in Delaware..........scratching head again time.

[editor-surveyor]

"No one could make this stuff up."

Somebody made it up so they could 'study' it - PUKES !!

[Texas_Jarhead]

Not sure how I got it on your ping list but please remove me.

[editor-surveyor]

"Kinda makes you long for a diesel SUV, doesn't it?"

All four of my kids have them, and rave about them. The future belongs to diesel, and Hades belongs to the environmentalists.

[editor-surveyor]

Hey, you bin kicked off my ping list! ;o)

[mad_as_he$$]

ROFLMAO and you owe me a beer for the one I spilled!

[Texas_Jarhead]

thanks a mil, FReegards

[TexasCowboy]

The only way these socialist control freaks are going to be happy is if we all live in communal caves, naked, eating the tree bark and grass which they deem to be appropriate.

[kempo]

21,000 died from diesel pollution, 475 in Massachusetts! OK, who were they? Lets here the names.

[tubebender]

You gonna tell PRB about this???

[Psycho_Bunny]

Granting that these "deaths from diesel" numbers are provable , true and accurate - none of which I believe for a second - imaging how many would die without diesel.

[Cinnamon]

my stomach is turning as I read this post. I think it is high time for a cultural revolution in America... The Left's days are numbered they just don't know it. Gerogia is trying to ban pitbulls. damn it I am going to burst this $%^$%%&$ libs!!

[SandRat]

And the WATERMELONs say that......

[Eva]

I don't know about the claims in this article, but I have been very sensitive to diesel fumes since I was a little kid. It has always made me sick to my stomach and given me a head ache. I do have asthma, but I can't blame that on any one particular thing.