How ironic it's quite sickening..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6528853.stm

A BBC team has entered a remote region of Russia normally closed to foreigners that produces almost half the world's supply of palladium - a precious metal vital for making catalytic converters. But, as the BBC's Richard Galpin reports, it is accused of being the world's largest producer of acid rain.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the chimneys pump out a toxic cocktail of pollutants which the company responsible openly admits is mostly sulphur dioxide (two million tons a year).

Once in the atmosphere this gas turns into acid rain.

The company Norilsk Nickel - currently worth about $34bn (

 

Surely if our cars didn't have cats on them we'd have less pollution than letting that shit hole keep ticking over?

 

Most car jorneys are a short distance and the cat doesn't work properly until its up to temp and are therefore pretty useless. We'd be better off driving well tuned cars without cats and closing down that sh*thole.

 

Excellent discovery Nick

Also If our cars didn't have cats there would be less CO2 emmisions........ Just more CO