Re: “Sweet spot goes up in smoke,” July 13.
While I find smokers and their secondhand smoke annoying, I must ask why we tolerate a much more dangerous pollutant: car exhaust.
Our society needs vehicles for our high standard of living, so some pollution is necessary.
But why we tolerate idling vehicles parked with air conditioning or heaters running so an interior can be kept the optimum temperature is a mystery to me. Often, opening vehicle windows would accomplish the same goal for the occupant.
Why the bike-loving, anti-vehicle zealots at Victoria city hall have not made an anti-idling law with stronger fines, and instructed parking and bylaw officers to enforce it vigorously I do not know.
There is lots of money available for the city with an anti-vehicle-idling bylaw.
I am sick of breathing needless pollution so someone can sit in a car that is just the perfect temperature. I guess gas prices are still not high enough.
Ken Mawdsley
Saanich
