Texas Asks People to Avoid Using Their Cars

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Texas officials are urging residents in some areas to use different modes of transportation other than their cars on Friday as ozone pollution in the state reach concerning levels. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has declared an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Galveston and Brazoria areas because of high levels of ozone, also known as smog.

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Can you imagine how outraged republicans from as far away as Maine would be if Gavin Newsome made such a request of people in California??

#1 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-11 09:56 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 3

It's weird how this isn't:

"ZOMG!!!!!! THIS IS LIEK A ----------- OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S TOTALITARIANISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEXAS IS RAN BY CLIMATE NAZIS!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!1111!!!!!!0NE1111!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMMFG111!!!!!!!!!!!!"

and no one is calling for the execution of the people who asked for this or anything, in'nit?

#2 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-11 10:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

We've not had a 'smog alert' here in SoCal in something like 25-years. When we first moved here in 1980, there were several alerts each year and days when they would close schools so that children could stay indoors at home. However, over the years, the air has gotten much cleaner and today, even when driving up toward L.A., the sky is so much cleaner looking than years past.

OCU

#3 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-06-12 11:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Not use ma truck? What the hell is this? France!?!"

-Billy Bob Joe Cattlerancher

By God Texan

#4 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-06-12 11:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

Too funny.

Must be the communists again.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-12 11:29 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Considering wholly inadequate public transit system that D-FW is willing to finance and build, this is like asking Trump not to lie... it ain't a' gonna' happen!

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-12 11:31 AM | Reply

Yeah sure, blame it on the Ozone...

#7 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-06-12 11:40 AM | Reply

"Inconvenient Truth"

#8 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-06-12 11:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Why would Obama do this?
Obama hates our American way of life!

Hybrids is the way to go. But progressives are all or nothing in destroying gas vehicles.
#26 | POSTED BY BOAZ drudge.com

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-12 11:59 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

We need to get the right wing trucker convoy that is on standby and ready to rock anytime something upsets Donald Trump and have them ROLL COAL!!!! through these areas for about the next 6 or 8 weeks.

Freedom is on the line, fellow patriots.

#10 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-12 12:06 PM | Reply

If only there was a simple fix for this, like maybe cars and trucks that don't emit toxic fumes.

If only...

#11 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-06-12 12:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Let them choke.

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-12 12:17 PM | Reply

#11

That might have worked if we started around 30 years ago.

There are still idiots, probably even some of the idiots who issued these requests, who don't believe that this is happening.

Granted, many of them are paid to "not believe" it, as far as the general public goes though....

I was in Sault Ste. Marie, MI two weeks ago, we were in this watering hole cutting it up with the locals, this guy says to us "I don't know when it'll be warm enough to use my pool this year because of all this global warming....." and then he rolled his eyes.

That's as deep as most people's understanding will ever be of this.

It's probably already too late.

#13 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-12 12:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Let them choke.

#12 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Yeah.

There's a dome over the entire state and nothing that goes on inside of it will affect anything on the outside of it..

#14 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-12 12:28 PM | Reply

Great. The wind in Okiehomie is out of the South today. Keep that Texas smog south of the Red River.

Of course, to show their freedom and independence thousands of Texan knobs, from Tyler to El Paso, will be rolling coal in their diesel dualies over the next few days, to 'Show 'em'...

#15 | Posted by catdog at 2024-06-12 01:59 PM | Reply

I am sure all the coal rolling trucks have no impact, so meh. You reap what you sew.

#16 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-06-12 02:01 PM | Reply

#15 | Posted by catdog

As I am sure you know OK isn't any better for that behavior the population is just a lot smaller overall...

#17 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-06-12 02:02 PM | Reply

DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!

#18 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-12 02:08 PM | Reply

People suffering the consequences of their own actions

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-06-12 02:15 PM | Reply

However, over the years, the air has gotten much cleaner and today, even when driving up toward L.A., the sky is so much cleaner looking than years past.

Clean air?

COMMUNISTS!

#20 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-12 02:48 PM | Reply

Clean air?

#20 | POSTED BY NIXON

You misspelled the jackboot of a tyranical and oppressive government.

#21 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-12 02:54 PM | Reply

Remember when the "conservative" usuals convulsed over suggestions of mildly adjusting the thermostat during times of peak usage
And the tires! Who can forget the apocalyptic purse swinging they did when advised to check tire pressure as a way to maximize gas mileage and reduce fuel usage
If I recall, the DR deplorables were promising to do the opposite just to show the intrusive government. And apparently throw away their money. Because Obama or whatever

Those sure were the days

#22 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2024-06-12 03:16 PM | Reply

Has anyone made a gas operated suspension system plumbed from the shock absorbers to a central air motor/flywheel generator system. Everytime you drive over a surface irregularity, a puff of air from the shock absorber is directed to an accumulator, which runs the air motor, and the flywheel integrates the mechanical action, which turns a generator.

#23 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-12 03:41 PM | Reply

Rietze?!

#24 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-06-12 03:50 PM | Reply

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#25 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-12 03:56 PM | Reply

Technologies that can turn roads and bridges into "power plants"
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#26 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-12 03:58 PM | Reply

Some weirdo ------- organization made the request, not "Texas officials"

#27 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-06-12 04:19 PM | Reply

#27
You Lie.

About Us

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the environmental agency for the state. We have approximately 2,800 employees, located in our central office in Austin and 16 regional offices around Texas.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-12 04:23 PM | Reply

----------- strikes out again.

#29 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-06-12 04:23 PM | Reply

Some weirdo ------- organization made the request, not "Texas officials"

#27 | POSTED BY THEBULL

You complete idiot.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is a government agency. www.tceq.texas.gov

Honestly, how stupid are you?

#30 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-12 04:24 PM | Reply

*30 Rhetorical question

#31 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-06-12 04:28 PM | Reply

Honestly, how stupid are you?

#30 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

Hey,,,

Go easy.

This retarded ---- definitely lives in an echo chamber that's full of other retarded ----s and people who are well funded by fossil fuel billionaires who have been screaming "BURN EVERY GOD DAMNED FOSSIL FUEL YOU CAN GET YOUR RETARDED ------- HANDS ON!!!!" for longer than they've been alive.

#32 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-12 04:30 PM | Reply

Avoid unnecessary trips, don't top off your tank, and don't mow the lawn. Our local news says that.
DEQ is mainly there to check septic systems, city dwellers wouldn't know that.

#33 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-12 05:57 PM | Reply

Name the officials.

#34 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-06-12 07:41 PM | Reply

@#34 ... the officials. ...

So your current alias seems to admit they were State Officials.

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-12 07:47 PM | Reply

Which ones? Fauci was a state official too

#36 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-06-12 09:35 PM | Reply

"Which ones?"

The ones at The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

It's posted upthread. Can't you read?

#37 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-12 09:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

These aren't elected "officials" or Republicans as seems to be insinuated from this post.

#38 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-06-12 09:39 PM | Reply

@#38 ... These aren't elected "officials" or Republicans as seems to be insinuated from this post. ...

So now, your current alias, when questioned, seems to be backtracking from it's #27 in a major manner.

... Some weirdo ------- organization made the request, not "Texas officials" ...

Don't hurt yourself.

#39 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-12 09:46 PM | Reply

@#37 ... It's posted upthread. Can't you read? ...

"Can't you read" is not the question I'd ask.

My question to that current alias would be more along the lines of, ~why do you apparently want to appear to be intentionally stupid here?~

You can lead a person to knowledge, But you can't make them think.

#40 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-12 09:50 PM | Reply

"These aren't elected "officials" "

They're who the "elected officials" put in those state offices.

Are you actually suggesting the majority-Republican leadership put Democrats on that Commission?!? Have you been subject to any head injuries lately? Eaten any weird mushrooms?

How about brain worms?

#41 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-12 09:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#4 ... How about brain worms? ...

BrainDead
en.wikipedia.org

... BrainDead is an American political satire science fiction[1][2][3] comedy-drama television series created by Robert and Michelle King.[4] The series stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel Healy, a documentary film-maker who takes a job working for her brother Luke (Danny Pino), a U.S. Senator, when the funding for her latest film falls through.

Assigned as his new constituency caseworker, she discovers that Washington, D.C. has been invaded by extraterrestrial insects which are eating the brains and taking control of people, including members of Congress and their staffers. ...

[emphasis mine]

I mean, really, that TV show from June 2016 seems to have been so prescient.

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-12 09:54 PM | Reply

I was stationed at MCAS El Toro 76-83. There were days you couldn't see Saddleback mountain from the runway. Didn't get better by the time I left. Didn't help they razed all the orange groves from the base to Tustin. Irvine didn't exist when I got there. When I left, it was a fully developed city.

#43 | Posted by willowby at 2024-06-12 10:39 PM | Reply

@#43 ... There were days you couldn't see Saddleback mountain from the runway....

I remember when I was growing up in NYC that the summer air pollution was so bad that my eyes teared from it. I was reluctant to go outside because of that. We, as kids (circa 1960's) used to talk about the "ring around the horizon," i.e., the orange-brown coloring of the horizon from the air pollution.

I also remember when I first moved into my current house (late 70's) when my neighbor's car went up their driveway, I could easily smell the exhaust.

Neither of those two things occurs anymore here.

#44 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-12 11:04 PM | Reply

I remember my first adult trip to LA about 35 years ago. The smog was so bad you could see a brownish ring around the horizon.

The only time you could see was after several heavy days of rain. I remember being at Yamashiro with my LA friends, on a night with a spectacular view after a horrible, rainy week.

How often is the view this clear? I asked.

One friend answered without missing a beat: "Never"

Needless to say, in the intervening years, I've seen LA's air quality improve with each visit.

#45 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-12 11:14 PM | Reply

@#45 ... Needless to say, in the intervening years, I've seen LA's air quality improve ...

That's my experience in the NYC area.

Thank-you EPA.

#46 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-12 11:29 PM | Reply

The air has gotten much better. Over the years, I've had to go to California periodically for my job. There was a steady improvement in the air quality.

#47 | Posted by willowby at 2024-06-12 11:35 PM | Reply

"The air has gotten much better."

Damned gub'mint mandates! Amirite?

#48 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-12 11:36 PM | Reply

"Thank-you EPA."

And CA, for leading the way.

#49 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-12 11:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No cars, but pickup trucks are fine as long as they get under 10mpg, have truck nuts and roll coal

#50 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-06-13 06:36 AM | Reply

Tres didn't bother reading his own article ... .

The warning comes a day after California also experienced high levels of air pollution and warned people in Imperial County to delay visiting gas stations and using chemicals until ozone levels improve.

#51 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-06-13 07:38 AM | Reply

People suffering the consequences of their own actions

#19 | Posted by truthhurts

Except when there is a "gun" or baby/pregnancy involved. The progressives blame something else.

Right?

#52 | Posted by boaz at 2024-06-13 08:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

This is a direct result of bringing in too many people into the country.

Stop illegal immigration, our congestion problems might ease.

#53 | Posted by boaz at 2024-06-13 08:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

This is a direct result of bringing in too many people into the country.

#53 | POSTED BY BOAZ

It's a direct result of the internal combustion engine.

Here you are blaming people with cars, and you are....100% correct.

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-13 08:36 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Except when there is a "gun" or baby/pregnancy involved. The progressives blame something else.

Right?

#52 | POSTED BY BOAZ
Ummmmmm no

I blame the people and as a result I don't think certain people should have a gun

As for pregnancy I believe the woman had the unrestricted right to do whet body what she deems necessary and appropriate. I don't know why anyone would want the government involved with THOSE decisions

#55 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-06-13 09:25 AM | Reply

lol yeah right.

When given the choice between turning their thermostats up to 75 or a failed power grid, Texans said "f^%* off" and chose the failed power grid.

#56 | Posted by jpw at 2024-06-13 09:57 AM | Reply

This is a direct result of bringing in too many people into the country.

Stop illegal immigration, our congestion problems might ease.

#53 | POSTED BY BOAZ

You have no idea how stupid you sound, do you?

#57 | Posted by jpw at 2024-06-13 09:58 AM | Reply

I haven't backtracked at all, it's some ------- run government org. There's a lot of them putting out bogus disinformation at all levels of government

#58 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-06-13 10:05 AM | Reply

#58 | POSTED BY THEBULL

DA BULL----Enjoying another evidence-free daily reality.

#59 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-13 10:25 AM | Reply

I haven't backtracked at all

#58 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Running away does not have to mean that you backtrack.

#60 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-13 10:26 AM | Reply

Some weirdo ------- organization made the request, not "Texas officials"
#27 | POSTED BY THEBULL

I haven't backtracked at all, it's some ------- run government org.
#58 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Now this is just embarrassing for you.

#61 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-13 11:01 AM | Reply

Stop illegal immigration, our congestion problems might ease.

#53 | POSTED BY BOAZ

If you would stop mouth farting in our general direction that would probably help a lot.

#62 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-13 12:52 PM | Reply

Texas officials are urging residents in some areas to use different modes of transportation other than their cars on Friday as ozone pollution in the state reach concerning levels.

Let's see if I have this right: Texas, the state famous for bad mouthing regulations are now asking the people to do what he could have/should have done decades ago by imposing proper regulations?

#63 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2024-06-13 01:50 PM | Reply

The air has gotten much better. Over the years, I've had to go to California periodically for my job. There was a steady improvement in the air quality.
#47 | POSTED BY WILLOWBY

Thanks, Communist California Air Resource Board!

Republicans have tried for decades to make it illegal for California to set their own air pollution rules.

#64 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-13 02:51 PM | Reply

Some of you stupid ----- still blame Trump for the lockdowns while it was all Faucis fault. The Demtard governors of NY, NJ, MI,CA and other states sure weren't locking down their constituents because Trump told them too as you doofuses seem to actually believe. Again this is some ------- organization putting out ------- information as -------- always do.

#65 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-06-13 07:43 PM | Reply

#13 | Posted by tres_flechas

It was 80 in Houghton, Michigan, a couple days ago, and that's a lot further North than Sualt Ste. Marie.

OCU

#66 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-06-13 07:48 PM | Reply

Texas Asks People to Avoid Using Their Cars

So you just borrow your neighbor's car, and they borrow yours.
Problem solved!

#67 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-13 08:06 PM | Reply

#65 | POSTED BY THEBULL

To be this stupid should hurt.

People with an IQ greater than 5 realize the lockdowns were necessary and the extent of COVID damage was due to Trump ignoring the threat.

#68 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-14 10:22 AM | Reply

It was 80 in Houghton, Michigan, a couple days ago, and that's a

#66 | POSTED BY OCUSER

The temperature was different this week than it was 2 weeks ago?

We should all, definitely, shoot for 2 MPG, as it was, clearly, all lies.

#69 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-14 07:22 PM | Reply

It was 80 in Houghton, Michigan, a couple days ago

I was just thinking about going down there this week. At the moment I'm directly north of there on the other shore.

#70 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-06-14 07:31 PM | Reply

And on a clear day, you still can't see the other side (Canada), although I've tried, from the top of Brockway Mountain Drive, the highest point at the most Northern part of Michigan, above the shores of Lake Superior on the Keweenaw Peninsula:

www.google.com

OCU

#71 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-06-15 01:54 AM | Reply