Next Generation Gasoline Pumps Improve the Environment

The 1800’s brought us the industrial revolution and the internal combustion engine. Two developments of the 19th century that we can thank for more free time and the ability to get out on the road and enjoy it. We can also thank them for smog; increased numbers of Americans afflicted with respiratory diseases, and global warming. Since the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, there have been significant reductions in hydrocarbon emissions yet these so-called “greenhouse” gases continue to pose a threat to the environment. According to Michael Kenny, Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, “Greenhouse gases really translate to Carbon monoxide more than anything else, there are a number of greenhouse gases, but that’s the one most people are familiar with, and what a greenhouse gas does is it allows the earth’s atmosphere to warm up, and then there are consequences to that such as reduction in the size of the ice caps, increased temperatures throughout the Earth, and that has an impact for us in the context of smog, because when you have warmer weather, you have more smog.”