what kind of air pollution do you think is the worst
in Philadelphia i think the worst is cars
cars
because there isn't a lot of manufacturing right in Philadelphia any more at least not any heavy manufacturing
yeah but they couldn't there is a lot of different pollution you can get from cars right
right a lot of pollution from cars and also the trucks that drive around through so i think transportation is the worst right here in the city
um-hum there is carbon monoxide carbon dioxide
oh right uh-huh
nitric oxide
uh-huh
the all that kind of stuff
and plus we get the chlorofluorocarbons i guess from the old refrigerator and old cars
yeah and there's ozone
right
it's like uh from
also like when you fill-up your car with gas
well you know in Philadelphia they've got these gas vapor recovery nozzle on all the gas tank now
oh yeah that's right
if you go to the gas pump you it just sucks it back out
yeah um-hum yeah
it makes it really hard to tell when your tank is full though
uh
because you can't really lessen very well
hum
you have to just trust the automatic shut off
oh
so you can't really get it full if you are going on a long its really hard
huh
well let's see what else there's uh
more more sometimes they say it more pollution inside your house
yeah from all the gas stoves and everything yeah
well i got the dry cleaning
uh-huh
that stuff is pretty nasty nasty
um i know all the kind of fumes you can get from bathroom cleaners your aerosols
that's true though most help aid don't let me use
bathroom cleaner with bad uh chemicals in them any more
chlorofluorocarbons chlorofluorocarbons chlorofluorocarbons or something like that chlorofluorocarbons that's it
right they make me use Simple Green or um they will let me use Comet or self cleanser but
what simple simple green is supposedly it not toxic really
right it it suppose to be none toxics and its suppose to be good for the environment
oh yeah yeah
so they like that
i prefer uh
ammonia
and um
there's something my mamma gave me
last time i was visiting her its a
it's called scrub free it really makes a bad odor though so my housemate don't like that
what is it
scrub free
scrub free huh
right
well
you know i knew that the air in Philadelphia was not the greatest when i first came here it i lived where i could on a clear day
see the Walt Whitman bridge but i couldn't see it for a a couple of months until it got to be winter time and the pollution cleared up
oh really where are you originally from
from South Carolina
oh huh
but the amazing thing i was out at San Francisco a few years ago and the air there is so clean
well not always depends if you don't there if there's a brief stop then you get the uh smog
right
doesn't move like you're out in Lake Tahoe its like that you can really smell the gas fumes from cars the air is trap and it doesn't go anywhere
uh-huh
in fact the worst place is probably in Mexico Mexico City i heard is
right on the top of the mountain yeah
well they validated i think uh
one or two hundred day uh days out of a year over three or four times the
known you know the allowable limit
right
it crazy and uh some of the worst kind that our you can have also air pollution you can just have cigarette smoke
stuck in
oh cigarette smoke the worst place for air pollution of cigarette smoke is the laundry mat i hate that
in a laundry mate
right when people come in and they're smoking while they're waiting for their clothes and you take yours out
and they're all clean and you want to hang them up and
oh gosh
there all these people smoking there
um-hum
really wow
fortunately i've started going at an hour where not many people smoke
hum
but
oh
i really hated that when that was a problem for me
i know which is worst cigar smoke or regular cigarette smoke
uh boy
um
boy i'll chose regular cigarette smoke
yeah hum
but if there was as many people smoking cigars as there were cigarettes cigar smoke would definitely be worst
uh i don't know its a lot of smoke out uh out her you can see um
the New Jersey when you go by the refinery or even when you go across the Delaware River
down by uh
it passes away but down as you go down toward ninety five you see all that
that stuff that comes out of the refineries
oh right
