Diesel Soot, by any other name, is just as toxic !
Diesel Soot, by any other name, is just as toxic ! GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprao64@gmail.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Caveat : This blog pre-supposes the reader has perused an earlier blog ‘Cause Bond-based Political cycle Government, NGDP Optimization and Budgeting’, gprao64.blogspot.com “kuchch milaega... .... ....Sheikh OC Kar”. That was all of 45 years ago when I heard a voice in my head suggesting I walk in to, and sniff the black soot vented by an MSRTC bus as it laboured past me trudging home from KV Ambarnath, stopped, then started with a belch of black soot. That I mocked the suggestion, and yet heard “Response....Record” as I continued my walk, is a different matter. The problem, that of exposure to diesel soot suffered by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, residents, commuters, and shoppers continues unabated to this day. In fact, if data were collected, collated and published, it’d reveal that the population-wide exposure t