If you live or work near major highways - heck, let's throw in urban centers, too - you're pretty well doomed. So sayeth the best and brightest in the environmentalist community. Jim Fary, from the MoCo Sierra Club, and John Balbus of the Environmental Defense Action Fund say living in places with lots of cars "can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks and respiratory disease."
Fary and Balbus effectively play the "safety of children" card which has proven to be useful in past NIMBY efforts. They hope to marry the inflamed passions of local PTAs with Al Gore's carbon neutrals to put pressure on Governor-Elect Martin O'Malley and the Democratic Congress to deep-six the generations old dream of a beltway bypass.
As a result, millions in the DC area are left pondering the utility of living in the "toxic pollution" along highways and dense urban areas. Why not move to one of those nice new communities out in the sprawl where the air is clean and drive in every day? At least then your car's nice HVAC system can filter out all of the bad air on your way in to work.
Another option would be to ban all autos and go back to the horse, but then the resulting methane emissions of our new equine overlords might trigger the rapid and total collapse of Greenland's glaciers...
December 03, 2006
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But the methane gas can be used to fuel homes, buildings, and even cars.
In the 1970's when I was young (I was young once), there was a man from Englang who ran his car on chicken crap- he had it converted into methane.
The other benefit, when a horse gets old, instead of trading it in- the owner can have horse meat and recycle the hooves and bones for glue.
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