Clean Air

In response to “Fall Smog Season Opens With Eye-Smarting Stage I Alert” (Metro, Sept. 27):

We’re back to square one. Millions of dollars have been wasted on scrutinizing, analyzing and debating the smog problem. We have identified the automobile as the major source of smog.

Tom Eichhorn, a spokesman for the Air Quality Management District, stated, “Nitrogen oxides are a byproduct of combustion--72% of it from motor vehicle emissions,” and yet, year after year these agents of disease receive variances which permit them to continue their history of pollution via the tailpipe.

We cannot clean up our air with rhetoric.

JEANNE E. GROSSMAN

Palm Springs