Haymarket Bomb

Car Pollution Driving a car is the most polluting act an average citizen commits. Emissions from cars is going up in Canada and the US despite attempts to make engines more fuel-efficient. The main reason is that cars are getting bigger and pick-up trucks and sport/utility vehicles replacing smaller, lighter cars. The average new vehicle in 1998 consumed more fuel than its counterpart in 1988. Exhaust from engines combine to produce adverse effects on the health …

…the carbon monoxide pollution can exceed 90 percent from cars alone. All of these different chemicals cant be doing us any good. Air pollution from traffic at the levels we have today does cause a major health impact. In London, studies show that more people are in a way injured by car pollution than by car accidents. It showed that air pollution from cars caused 300,000 extra cases of bronchitis in children, and 162,000 asthma attacks in children.