Air Pollution Fears Put London’s Ice Cream Trucks at Risk

The New York Times ^ | May 12, 2019 | Anna Schaverien

[rightwingintelligentsia]

LONDON — There are few more unmistakable signs that summer has arrived in Britain than hearing the chimes of an ice cream truck from the street.

But Londoners could soon find it harder to track down soft-serve on a hot day, because of fears that pollutants from the trucks’ diesel engines may be endangering lives.

Councils in the city are threatening to clamp down on ice cream trucks that roam their streets if they do not become more environmentally friendly.

“No one wants a side order of asthma with their ice cream,” Caroline Russell, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, said in a recent phone interview.

[a fool in paradise]

Food nazis will tell you that junk food clogs our national health service and exploits cows.

[Still Thinking]

Oh man. Now they’re fighting dirty.

[vette6387]

London’s bigger pollution problem is their Muzzie mayor! It’s hard to imagine that the UK has fallen so far that the “majority in London” elects a Paki Mooslim to be mayor.

[RayChuang88]

A major issue is that London should have converted their commercial vehicles to natural gas fueling a couple of decades ago. A modern CNG-fueled vehicle emits a tiny fraction of the pollutants of diesel-fueled vehicle—and that’s before application of modern emission controls.

[Haiku Guy]

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis

[gaijin]

smell smoke —> catch asthma

Got it.

[Rio]

I have an idea...

[shanover]

London’s real issue is the Islamic one. Remind me again why our boys died for this increasingly insane Islamic Island.

[Jaded]

I am vastly relieved to know that before there were diesel powered ice-cream trucks there was NO pollution in London. Ever. /so

[I want the USA back]

They will soon be banning ice cream trucks to force us to believe that global warming is real.

Liberalism sucks.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Right. Not even in 1952, when 12,000 people died due to fog.

[dfwgator]

Looks like DLR won’t be going to London anytime soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RKWJD5ops

[Redwood71]

Two words: hepa filter.

rwood

[captain_dave]

It wasn’t “fog”. It was smog from burning soft coal.

[Winniesboy]

Ah, smog. It’s almost possible to be nostalgic about it. But there’s no doubt it was a killer. Ended by the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and 1960a, which banned the burning of coal in domestic open fires. Fog (of any kind) is now a rare event in London.

[Liz]