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All this talk about global warming, which, by the way is real, is just that talk. We need for industry to take the lead, and get things started. First we need hybrid vehicles that are affordable, and the more they make, the cheaper they will be. Auto makers are patting themselves on the pack because they have a few out there, but how many of us can buy them? Next, E-85 is not the answer, unless of course you have 10,000 acres of corn growing out back. E-85 is expensive to make, gives poor mileage, and will make any thing related to corn go up in price. Cattle farmers will pay higher prices for corn to feed their herds because the corn farmer can get a better price at the refinery, so your hamburger will cost more, and your milk. The wheat farmer can make more money raising corn, so the cost of a loaf of bread will go up, whoops, it already has. But you get the picture, let your imagination run wild, you won't like it. And why do we not have affordable electric cars? In my case, an electric would be the perfect second car, as it probably would for a lot of two car families. Where are the windmills that can generate electricity? I read recently about a power company in New England that wanted to put some along the coast to make use of the winds there, but the elite residents said it would spoil their view. Hey, Duke Power, I've got a big field out behind my place, and there is always a strong breeze and often pretty strong winds. Let's talk. The recent decision not to reopen the White Street Landfill to make use of available capacity and avoid the 140 mile round trip to Montgomery County made by our garbage trucks. I grew up in northeast Greensboro, and lived there most of my life. The smell is not that bad, folks, and it would save a ton of money. The county had no problem with putting an asphalt plant next to those folks over on Liberty Rd, and that is a bad smell, to say nothing of possible health effects down the road. I won't go into possible reasons for one over the other, but if you look into it, you can figure it out. And while I'm on my soap box, and talking about the landfill, this new deal about HD TV next year, how many old tv sets will be discarded because of this unneeded piece of legislation? Somebody has a really good lobbiest working there . Even Lorraine Ahearn, not my favorite columnist, wrote about the use of those cheap plastic bags at the gocery store, that can't stay together long enough to get your groceries into the house, but will linger forever in the dump down in Montgomery County. What do we have against Montgoery County, by the way?Anyway, thats enough to get us started,give us some decent alternatives to what is messing with the ozone, and show us how with a sacrifice here and there we can save our planet, yes our planet, not the planet, we will screw up Mars when we get there, but for now, we have work to do here. And one more thing, be careful with those new light bulbs, they can be hazardous to our health.

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Global Warming, the Economy, what can we do?

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