I don’t know about your neighborhood, but mine is periodically choked with large trucks—almost all of them running on diesel—making deliveries. Massive 18-wheelers, double-parked outside dépanneurs (the word we use in Quebec for what the British call “cornershops,” and New Yorkers “bodegas”), unloading 12-packs of beer. UPS, Amazon, and FedEx trucks, wh…
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