POLLUTION

A hundred years ago everyone was getting hysterical about pollution, - horse shit in the road - it was frightful. Men had to walk on the outside to stop the women's dresses getting splattered, it was everywhere. Nobody discusses the problem now and yet nothing was done about it. Why? because there is no horse shit today. In a hundred years time there will be no benzene or CO2 pollution from our roads. Why? Because petrol and oil will have run out or become so prohibitively expensive that cars will run on a different fuel, probably hydrogen whose exhaust will dribble pure water. See POLLUTION Chapter No.11. We don't have to wait a hundred years, to clean the air, we can hurry the process by differential taxation. Because the car can travel faster, than 9 mph in London today, the car will be on the road for a shorter time this should more than halve the pollution. Travelling in low gear means the engine is going no slower just because the car is travelling slowly. Constant braking fills the air with dust and a great deal of energy/pollution is needed to get the car rolling again, after a traffic light stop.