Monday is an Ozone Alert Day

[Ed W]

Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
has declared an
Ozone Alert!
for
Monday, June 25, 2012
in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area

Persons with lung or heart disease should be aware that increased pollution may cause them to experience adverse health effects. Ozone affects people differently.   Symptoms include chest pain, coughing, sneezing, nausea, headache and pulmonary congestion. Active children, adults and especially people with respiratory disease such as asthma should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.

Take Action on Ozone Alert! Days

    Leave your car at home. Walk, bike, carpool, ride the bus or telecommute.
    Avoid long idle times. Walk in rather than drive thru.
    Postpone refueling. Wait until evening or not at all.
    Postpone mowing and using other gas-powered lawn tools.
    Postpone errands. Do them another day.


Take Action All Summer Long

    Drive less. Leave your car at home one day a week. Try walking, biking, carpooling, riding the bus or telecommuting. Log your miles at www.green-traveler.org.
    Avoid long idle time. Turn off your car after 30 seconds when not in traffic.
    Refuel in the evening and don't top off the tank.
    Do your garden chores gasoline-free. Avoid gas-powered lawn tools until evening.


www.OzoneAlert.Com

I'll do my part by not cutting the grass...again

[RecycleMichael]

I have an electric mower.

The simplest thing everybody can do to help lower ozone levels is to buy gas at night. The later the better. That gives emissions the chance to dissipate and be diluted before the baking of the afternoon sun.

Here is a commercial that I wrote and produced last year with a character named "Phillip Knight".

http://www.ozonealert.com/2011%20psa%20Phillip%20Knight.wmv

[patric]

It's frustrating that all this effort can be cancelled out by just one lawn-care company making their rounds, yet I still feel better trying.

[RecycleMichael]

Everything helps. Thousands of Tulsans pay attention and try to do something on ozone alert days.

Another thing that is easy to do is to bring your lunch tomorrow and not get in the car and go through the drive-through. Here is another commercial I made with a character I called Cari Browne-Bagg...

http://www.ozonealert.com/2011%20psa%20Cari%20Browne-Bagg.wmv

Look closely for the Wonder Woman and Hello Kitty lunch boxes.

[heironymouspasparagus]

If I had the bus I want, I could drive it to work!!

Gotta hurry up and get that so I can do my part!

[RecycleMichael]

This is our commercial for a character named "Ana Buss."

http://www.ozonealert.com/2011%20psa%20Ana%20Buss.wmv

[Townsend]

Any changes made by the City or County to go along with Ozone day guidelines?

[Conan71]

I have an electric mower.

The simplest thing everybody can do to help lower ozone levels is to buy gas at night. The later the better. That gives emissions the chance to dissipate and be diluted before the baking of the afternoon sun.

Here is a commercial that I wrote and produced last year with a character named "Phillip Knight".

http://www.ozonealert.com/2011%20psa%20Phillip%20Knight.wmv

Why do we not have the rubber seals on the gas pump nozzles here like they have in California?  I thought those were to help reduce emissions from re-fueling.

[RecycleMichael]

Why do we not have the rubber seals on the gas pump nozzles here like they have in California?  I thought those were to help reduce emissions from re-fueling.

Those vacuum nozzles are very expensive. If Tulsa goes on the dirty air list, the stations will be required to install them.

[Hoss]

Those vacuum nozzles are very expensive. If Tulsa goes on the dirty air list, the stations will be required to install them.

I worked in Texas for a oil/gas company.  I traveled auditing those convenience stores that bought our gas.  Those 'rubber seals' are GVRs (gasoline vapor recovery).

Looks as if as of May, the EPA will phase those out.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/05/epa-waives-requirements-for-gasoline-pump-vapor-recovery.html

[Conan71]

I worked in Texas for a oil/gas company.  I traveled auditing those convenience stores that bought our gas.  Those 'rubber seals' are GVRs (gasoline vapor recovery).

Looks as if as of May, the EPA will phase those out.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/05/epa-waives-requirements-for-gasoline-pump-vapor-recovery.html

Ahh, so the Democrats are for dirty air and starving Grandma after all!

[RecycleMichael]

Please don't make air quality political.

This is an issue that affects us all. We all know and love someone who has breathing problems.

It is our air. We should care for that reason, not because of some regulatory agency.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Those vacuum nozzles are very expensive. If Tulsa goes on the dirty air list, the stations will be required to install them.

On the other hand, why fight the inevitable - since the air will just continue to get worse without more aggressive intervention, why not just go on the list, spend the time/effort/money to actually start reducing the problem.  Waiting to get started can only make it even more expensive and a bigger problem when it does happen.  I'm reminded of those car maintenance commercials - you can pay some now, or pay a lot more later....

Might actually reduce some of that greasy yellow haze ya see over Tulsa when coming around the big curve on southbound highway 169 at Owasso, next to the big water tower.  Here's how old I actually am - I remember when that haze was not there....the view was magnificent!

It's not that I really object to the ozone alert program now - it gives us something to rally round and create a sense of civic cohesiveness and unity.  A feeling of accomplishment without really having to do much at all.

Just wondering...

[Hoss]

On the other hand, why fight the inevitable - since the air will just continue to get worse without more aggressive intervention, why not just go on the list, spend the time/effort/money to actually start reducing the problem.  Waiting to get started can only make it even more expensive and a bigger problem when it does happen.  I'm reminded of those car maintenance commercials - you can pay some now, or pay a lot more later....

Might actually reduce some of that greasy yellow haze ya see over Tulsa when coming around the big curve on southbound highway 169 at Owasso, next to the big water tower.  Here's how old I actually am - I remember when that haze was not there....the view was magnificent!

It's not that I really object to the ozone alert program now - it gives us something to rally round and create a sense of civic cohesiveness and unity.  A feeling of accomplishment without really having to do much at all.

Just wondering...

I thought there was a suspension to the Dirty Air List last year?  I thought I read that but haven't been able to prove it's been suspended.  Nor have I been able to prove it's in effect, either.

[RecycleMichael]

You are ignorant on the issue.

Tulsa's air quality is improving. Our ozone levels have gone down 10 of the past twelve years. Ozone readings are down 18% since year 2000.