SMOG harms Public Health while Damaging Nature

 When gasoline or diesel fuel combusted in engines, the resulting exhaust gas contains mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor, but when we add together the emissions of all combustion engines, the trace emissions of pollutants in traffic congestion accumulate faster than dispersion, forming air pollution that clogs the engines air filter faster, but also damaging the lung cells of people breathing in, near and around traffic congestion, where stop and go traffic jams, all those engines burning fuel without moving getting negative fuel economy, while forming SMOG air pollution that forms acid rain, lung toxic, toxic to brain, kidneys, liver, responsible for many disease pathology, especially cancers.

 

HC Hydro Carbon vapor, 90% emitted just after cold start after vehicle parked all night

PM Particulate Matter, tiny particles, micro-fine, dust like lodge deep into lung tissue

Oxides of Nitrogen like that orange brown lung toxic nitrogen dioxide, major smog part

Tire tread particles & brake pad dust, wearing away, toxic dust & microplastics

Soot, smoke, vapors from leaking engine oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, grease, tar, gunk, smelly petrochemical fog, SMOG

Acid rain also acidifies bodies of water toxic to fish & other aquatic wildlife, SOx, NOx

Rising fuel prices are also still very cheap, to understand why you have to consider all the things that a gallon of crude oil can produce, of incredible value added potential, so many applications of petroleum in industrial chemistry of critical value to most industries, synthetic fabric, wire insulator, explosives, dye, membranes for batteries, non-stick coating, lubricants, lubricating oils, synthetic tire compounds, food additives, concrete additives, asphalt additives, carpeting, vinyl windows and siding, play slides on playgrounds, shoes, tires, storage bins, containers, food packages, hospital tubes and many other plastics in hospitals, in fact plastics are the bread and butter of petrochemical industries. 

 

While a single 42 US gallon barrel of Brent Crude can make about $220 of transportation fuels, propane, butane and tar for asphalt, if the same exact barrel of crude converted to high value polymers they are worth more than $1400, but the market capitalization of fuels about 10,000 bigger than the global market for high value synthetic polymers or similar petrochemicals.