The question is, what do you love more? Your big truck or clean air? Your driving pleasure or your good health?
We're to blame if we drive vehicles that get poor gas mileage, if we commute long distances, if our homes are not energy-efficient.
Nobody's asking that you go live in a cave and hunt with spears to stay alive.
By the way, cutting down on energy not only keeps the air cleaner, it cuts down on costs too.

Smog?
Don't you mean haze?

"Don't ask me to give up anything unless you give up everything."
Do you know how childish that sounds?

The problem is that youre stupid choices affect others. Were glad your construction business is going so well that you can afford to pollute with your gas guzzling, pollution belching truck. But you are driving up gas and health care costs for those of us who cannot afford it. You like all that so much and have the money, go to LA. They got plenty of high priced gas and pollution. You would feel right at home.

Read awhile back that a group of Doctor said about 1,000 deaths annually along the Wasatch front were due to air pollution... and watched as people told them to shut up, it was none of their business.

Life is not valued highly in Utah.

It continues to amaze me that we have two completely separate clean-air narratives going on in our society. There's the smog/haze narrative, which never mentions second-hand tobacco smoke, and there's the second-hand smoke narrative that never mentions smog/haze. In the tobacco narrative, the solution is always bans, bans, and more bans. In the smog/haze narrative, the gentlest suggestion that maybe driving around solo in a monster truck isn't the best thing for the air is met with bristling resistance.

It utterly perplexes me that you can legally sit in your idling truck in the (ironically named) Liberty Park, but if you turn off the engine and light up a smoke, which I guarantee would improve the quality of the air around you, you can get ticketed! Bizarre.

This is the most backward letter I've seen published in a while. Shouldn't we strive for something better? Shouldn't we cultivate health and vigor and not immerse our kids in fishbowls of smog?

I'm all for improvement and not padding developers of smoke belching power plants.

Wind, Geothermal, Biomass - that's the way to go Fran!!!!

Personally, I like the orange-brown color of the sky in Salt Lake City.
Smells tastes good too!

The choices to cut smog don't have to be tough. They are only tough if you take them to radical extremes or FORCE individuals to go beyond what they are comfortable with.

Personally I've made a lot of changes in my life to help decrease smog and I plan to continue to do more as my life allows me to (when I retire etc). I got a job closer to home, got more fuel efficient cars, drive only when necessary and keep the rest of my family from making un-needed trips, use more energy efficient habits at home, to name a few. These aren't hard decisions because they didn't decrease the enjoyment I get out of life.

The only way the decisions I have to make would get "Hard" for me is if I were FORCED to do these things because of some radical groups insistance that I follow their agenda. When I do it on my own, I have no problem with it. When I am forced to do it (and I don't see the sense in the rules that are being forced on me) it starts to feel "Hard".

Just something to think about.

Two words: Nuclear Power!!

We've insured the continuation of pollution by allowing Chris Buttars to run again.

Just keep telling your children that the orange-brown air that smells like paint is a miracle from God and is good for them. Then tell them it is designed only for their group and that they are blessed by God for it.