SMOG

Our cars are emitting huge amounts of pollutants. And we are doing more and more miles.

The pollutants from vehicle exhausts are

1 Nitrogen Oxide

2 PM10 - or tiny particles

This pollution is always there! Just because the sun is shining do we see it as the Nitrogen Oxide breaks down in sunlight to form Ozone. And this give SMOG.

We are facing a £300M fine from the EU because of our pollution levels, and if we want to cure this we have to drive less, or use less polluting cars and trucks - i.e. smaller and more efficient engines. Cutting speed limits would also help a lot.

In France and Italy they have a similar problem, but there they allow cars with even number plates to drive on one day, and odd ones on another...

So when will we see the government mandate something like this?