Re: Study: Commuters Can't Escape Dangerous Diesel

Commercial airlines, cruise ships and trucking transports are the three
top air polluters in the world. Deisel trais are pretty bad too but not
as heavily used these days as the other three. You can't even get near
the city of denver and some other major trucking/airline hubs without
the smell of diesel hitting you. mst airports these days the customer is
indoors away from the smell and the gates re far away from the terminal
public entrances so you don't realy smell it but if you get down on that
tarmac or visit a fairly smal airport where the jets are close to the
main entrances it smells just like a truckstop.


Re: Study: Commuters Can't Escape Dangerous Diesel

Group: sci.med.diseases.cancer Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2007, 7:28pm From:
jonboy42@xxxxxxxxx (J W)
My Brother in law is comptroller for a major firm that brokers fuel to
airlines, crise ships and home heating oil companies. I reckon he would
know what goes in the planes.
Re: Study: Commuters Can't Escape Dangerous Diesel
Group: sci.med.diseases.cancer Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2007, 1:19am (EST+6)
From: down@xxxxxxxxxxxx (madiba)
Steph <steph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"madiba" <down@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1huif47.7tygcsbmewfwN%down@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx J W <jonboy42@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Wonder if anyone has ever studied the levels of diesel toxins and cancer
rates among workers at major airports and in shipyards. Comercial
airliners and cruise ships use large quantities of the very cheapest
lowest grades of diesle fuel there is and use no filters that I know of.
Jets spew out fumes in huge amounts. Wonder what efect that has on
groundworkers that service the planes and frequent flyers as I have
noted smelling exhaust inside several aircraft while we were taxiing.
Wonder if cancer rates are high among airline ground rews and cruise
ship crews and dock workers?
Or amongst people living near airports. OTOH jets don't use diesel..
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madiba
Kerosene.
Kerosene is lighter than diesel. Just looking at the problems my diesel
4x4 has starting in winter I reckon it would have the viscosity of glue
at 30000ft with -50°C !
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madiba




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