Smog

 The Trump 2 administration has recently decided that it doesn't care what comes out of automobile tailpipes.  They want California to quit insisting on that "clean" fuel; they want us to use that gasoline that made all the smog we thought we'd gotten rid of.

It's been a long time, but my family made a trip to Los Angeles in the 1950s.  We were taking the kids to Disneyland.  I don't remember the exact year, but I'm going to say 1956, because I was 10 that year and my sister Sue was 8.  So Disneyland looked great to us.

We were a lower middle class family so we didn't do anything exotic to get there; we drove.  Since we started in Napa, we probably drove over to the central valley and took I-5 down, thus avoiding the traffic mess that was the Bay Area.  And that meant that we went into LA through the Grapevine, otherwise known as the Tejon Pass.  This pass is 4,144 feet high at the top.  

This much later I'm fuzzy on the details, but we stopped for some reason near the top - we may have stopped at Fort Tejon State Historic Park, or maybe just for gas.

Here's what I still remember, 70 years later or so:  We were over 4000 above the Los Angeles area, and still quite a number of miles away.  And when I got out of the car I could feel my eyes sting.  From the air.  From the smog.

We've largely gotten rid of that kind of smog, and Trump thinks we should have it back.  Consider that.