Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

  • FluffyPotato
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    10 months ago

    Neither do school busses since only kids take those. If like most people took the bus instead of drove that would help immensely even if it was the most polluting bus ever.

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      10 months ago

      um wtf? We all wearing gas masks or something? You realise diesel fumes are toxic to people right? Kids catching buses spewing toxic gas is not a good situation. I think you’re focusing on the climate changing issue of pollution and not the pressing issue, which is the toxic fumes that come from diesel buses.

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        10 months ago

        What kind of weird busses do you have in the states? Most busses (And a large amount of cars) here run on diesel and have no such issue.

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            10 months ago

            Probably not a good idea for them to suck on the tailpipe but diesel busses are like the most common type of bus and they don’t pump the exhaust into the cabin. So unless busses in the US do that or kids like the taste of tailpipe I don’t see how that is even happening.

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                10 months ago

                Are you saying school busses in the US are like a fog rolling into town or something? Because I’m having a hard time picturing how kids can have enough exposure to diesel fumes the way you described it works or how petrol fumes aren’t an even bigger issue since they are waiting near a car road. Also having regular busses would reduce petrol and diesel fumes they breath in while waiting anyways if it works the way you describe.

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                    10 months ago

                    Enough to be harmful. Humans get exposed to dangerous things every single day, even if you don’t leave the house, it’s just in a quantity to not effect you during a human lifespan.