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Yep.

I was sort of trying to get at this with:

>> Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater.

I used to live in Central London and you could smell the diesel fumes in the morning. I'm very familiar with particulate emissions.

Kill ICE's and we solve both.

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> I was sort of trying to get at this with:

> >> Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater.

which isn't true. Moreover, you didn't really give an argument for why this shouldn't be tackled at both ends of the problem. The smell is the least of our worries with particulate emissions.

200 years ago it was horse manure. Is that what would replace it?

Electric vehicles.

Sure. $100,000 US Teslas for everybody.

You're aware that Tesla has driven the cost of batteries below $200/kwh 5 years ahead of schedule? Batteries than can go in light vehicles, heavy vehicles, any sorts of vehicles. They will only continue to get cheaper.

Oh, I understand, but these things always take a while. And the the power grid will have to adapt. At least coal seems to finally be disappearing.

O'RLY? In a fit of masochism, I watched this:

http://www.spike.com/shows/life-or-debt/episode-guide "Til Debt Do Us Part" - Season 1, Ep 7.

My father said when he was a boy the cry was "clean up our cities" to replace horses with cars.

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