[jambutty]

Pollution is obviously a problem and problems are there to be solved and not argued against solving them.

Using bio fuel may well present new problems in that cereal products are used to produce it and thus may cause a flour shortage but corn is not the only vegetable matter that can produce ethanol.

All people seem to be doing is making excuses why petrol and Diesel should continue to be used and not embracing the situation and working to resolve it.

Like others I lived through the smoky days gone by but there were no near as many vehicles on the road then as there are now. So a comparison doesn’t do much to establish a point.

I’m sure that genetics do come into the equation and as has been pointed out, in the ‘good’ old days we were not quite as hygienic as we are today. How else can we explain two siblings where one is as healthy as a horse and the other catches everything going. We lived amongst all the gunge and grew immune to it by exposure. What was that old saying? Something about a peck of dirt.

Still no anti-smokers making a contribution to the thread I see! Is there just one ‘ban smoking’ car driving campaigner who whinged and moaned about his/her hair and clothes smelling like an old ashtray after a night out and longed to breathe ‘clean’ air ready to come out of the woodwork and complain about his/her hair and clothes smelling like an old exhaust?

140 people have now read this thread so why no comments from some of them?