[oclug] Parking for Aug Meeting

[Chris Browne]

Michael Collins noted
>I would add that they are the greatest producers of global warming.

I'm sure you would.

It's not obvious that this is more than a common impression.

I spent a week in Delhi last year, and got the _impression_ that it
was spectacularly polluted [apparently it has the dubious distinction
of being the 4th most smoggy city in the world] due to the hordes of
"autocars" on the roads.

It is not at all obvious that this is in fact _true_; the vehicles
certainly produced pollution, but is certainly _not_ self-evident that
they produce more pollution than the other industrial activities in
the city.  The only thing I know _for sure_ is that I didn't see many
factories, because that's not where I went, but _did_ see a lot of
smoky cars.  A few smoky cars in a city of tens of millions of people
just _isn't_ a valid criteria for evaluation.

It doesn't say, mind you, that cars aren't doing any polluting, but you
need to be able to quote quantities with _some_ degree of accuracy in
order to claim that one thing or another is "the most."
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