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		MagnumOpus on March 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the M... Faster tire abrasion causes a) more particulate pollution from tire residual (which can be massively worse than pollution from exhaust in cities) b) more exhaust pollution from worse car mileage

chha on March 16, 2021 [–]

This is more or less correct; a car with studded tires will average around 20kgs of asphalt dust over a normal winter season.

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