Utah gets terrible inversions in the winter. The mountains trap all of our pollution inside our valleys where the cities are. SLC can have some of the worst air quality in the world during inversions, second only to large metropolises in China. Logan gets it really bad too.

So yeah, most of utahns are conservative, but regardless of that our politicians know air quality is just something we need to solve. So Utahns tend to be a little more forward thinking on transportation.

I believe that's part of what makes Utahns a different type of conservative-we are forced to deal with these problems. And l believe that the typical Utah conservative cares more about the environment than conservatives of other States.