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# Work tackles problems with oil
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/work-tackles-problems-with-oil/
- Published: 2008-02-29T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T23:28:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

get through the body’s filtration system and end up in our lungs. Air pollution can cause cancer, asthma and other diseases. Cars spew out carbon dioxide. Diesel engines put out more carbon dioxide than our automobiles. Airplane fuel and jet fuel adds to the pollution.

Also, ozone is one of the products of car exhaust. Ozone hurts trees, plants, lungs and farm crops. Trees filter some of it out. Our oceans filter some of it, too. But our lungs don’t filter it out at all.

This and much more is explored in this thought provoking work.

> “The Geneva Protocol of 1991 acknowledges that the oil industry could equip each method of oil transportation with technologies that would reduce emissions and leaks by 80 percent.”

The EPA has stated that greenhouse gases pose a threat to the nation’s welfare and want to rein in emissions from vehicles, factories, power plants and other industrial polluters. There is no turning back but Tamminen gives us some much-needed solutions in this book. He projects the future to 2025 and looks back. He postulates what future generations might tell us depending on what route we ultimately take. That of reduced fuel usage or that of our current cycle of use that has created much of the environmental chaos that exists today.

It is good news to realize since the publication of this book, things have started to improve for the better. There is a movement toward biodiesel and other kinds of biofuels using farm products such as corn and soy. The problem with this is that the more farm products we use the higher our grocery prices go because of the increase in demand.

This book should be read and pondered. There may still be time to enact positive change. It will be decades of reform necessary before we return to what we had before the industrial age began and if we are to save our environment for future generations we must do something — now.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 29, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022908.pdf?ref=smdp.com)