Flutterby™! : Costs of vehicle emissions

Streetsblog: MIT Study: Vehicle Emissions Cause 58,000 Premature Deaths Yearly in U.S.. The MIT study is behind a paywall at: Air pollution and early deaths in the United States. Part I: Quantifying the impact of major sectors in 2005. But the takeaway is simple, vehicle emissions sourced air pollution costs us almost 700k years of life per year:

... Air pollution-related mortality shortened the average victim’s lifespan by 12 years, the study estimates.