SNAFU. I AM NOT…

Too loud!!!

As for SMOG in C.A. I have a very good highly respected friend in San Diego, who is a highly respected Surgeon, we “Speak” to each other most days, and I have never heard him speak of SMOG, indeed in CA, they have very clean air, perchance you may be thinking of L.A.?. further North.I have been to C.A. and never experienced foul air.

That’s better.

Are there two California’s in America…?
Here is…

10 Worst Smog Cities in America

No. 10: El Centro, Calif.
No. 9: Washington, D.C. — Baltimore
No. 8: Dallas, Texas
No. 7: Houston, Texas
No. 6: Sacramento, Calif.
No. 5: Hanford, Calif.
No. 4: Fresno, Calif.
No. 3: Bakersfield, Calif.
No. 2: Visalia, Calif.
No. 1: Los Angeles, Calif.

http://www.webmd.com/asthma/ss/slideshow-worst-smog-cities

That looks like 70% Californian coverage in the worst smog league to me…
(Incidentally, only one of those is not necessarily in the list due to its own industry – El Centro gets its pollution from across the nearby Mexican border.)

As regards the USA, China, and Indias economy, are you saying it’s a case of, “As long as our economy is O.K. sod the rest of the world?”

I am for America. Its part of protectionism – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism
They want to grow up to be big and strong, players in world trade competing with the other big boys. If they have to spend money on silly things like pollution control then they will do all they can to find another way around it, ie not do it and carry on as normal, maybe imposing tariffs on cheaper goods coming in that were in competition with their industries.

Pop away…