I cant stop being anoid why people are using their cars in daily life to work etc. in sted of walk or take the buss!
That's right, Emmy! Guess Who, get your arse out of bed a little earlier and walk or bike a mile, please!
The reason the price of oil is going up is because there is too much demand for the stuff. Therefore, the market is rationing the supply.
I am well aware of the supplemental good reasons to conserve fossil fuel usage (not just reducing global CO2 or saving money on gas):
1. We are importing quite a bit, and the Middle Eastern countries have us by the short hairs, we are their ***. The less we need them, the less we need to have Americans over there.
2. I think I'd weigh 30 pounds lighter at least if I had to walk bike or rarely take public transit.
3. Because we also have hourly car rental down here (Flexcar and Zipcar) if you rented a car as needed you would dump the thousands on insurance, maintenance, repair, registration, personal property tax, and even gas (they include gas in the $8 an hour), I really think owning a car down here is a SHAME.
Jimmy Carter knew all right when he said drive 55, wear a sweater. The Carter Doctrine says the U.S.A. would use any necessary force to protect access to Middle Eastern oil.
Hello, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Gulf War 2.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Carter reinstituted registration for the military draft in 1980. It had been suspended since 1975, two years after the Vietnam draft was ended.
The Selective Service thing at the Post Office first thing after you turn 18. Been there, done that. I turned 18 on a Sunday. Dad made sure I did it Monday after school.
I wonder what happened to the acid rain issue. You never hear it mentioned these days.
We still have it, but to mention it would I think, upset the farmers / landowners.
I wonder what happened to the acid rain issue. You never hear it mentioned these days.
We still have it, but to mention it would I think, upset the farmers / landowners.
Why should they be upset in particular?
When the acid rain thing was initially an issue, I think ( but could be wrong ) that hill farmers ( in Wales & Scotland mainly, but the lake district farmers were also affected).had trouble selling or were banned from selling their sheep until the panic was over & I can't remember in what way it affected the sheep.
You might be interested in what these guys are doing - the money raised goes towards a charity, buying land for wildlife refuge, but it's basically a means of making a living out of other people's rubbish:
http://www.noahsark.org.au
That site looks really good, I know that there are places in Britain that take recycling seriously ( I used to have an arrangement with a man at the tip where I used to live....got a lot of nice furniture 
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I just wish that there was something local. 
I wonder what happened to the acid rain issue. You never hear it mentioned these days.
We still have it, but to mention it would I think, upset the farmers / landowners.
Why should they be upset in particular?
I'm sorry I am wrong, I was getting mixed up with the Chernobyl fallout.
I sincerely apologise ( should check first ).
Tonight I took out the trash on foot instead of driving it to the dumpster, as some of my neighbors do.
Three weeks ago the new management moved our dumpsters. One used to be 30 feet from the base of my front steps. Now it is 500 feet away. Hence, not just I but the woman in the Navy underneath my flat, taking trash over via gasoline.
I was going to drive the trash out when I saw the S.O.S. campaign by eSure auto insurance (with its adverts of a special agent woman, I'm in a rush, I need car insurance, gotta get eSurance, plus her special agent man friend) ("people sure love their cars...." but it is a problem, log in here)
I walked two bags of trash and an empty box to the dumpsters. Sure I had to put the bags down three times, but it felt good and I had an opportunity to hand-carry the rent to the drop box at management.
The less I drive (or take public transit), the more I am forced to walk or bike and do active things that make me lose weight. The last two weeks I have carried lots of stuff in.
two weeks ago: 3 steel assembly kits for metal shelves
last weekend: Saturday, a load of Target and Giant Food stuff, plus dry cleaning, whew.
Sunday: three more shelf kits.
this Saturday: four reusable bags worth of groceries and dry cleaning
and as I was coming in the door this evening, I thought I could see a bulge on my forearm (muscles?)
Like I have been thinking, if I was forced (or forced myself) to walk bike carry things in and hit the gym more, I'd lose weight gradually over time and gain strength.
Bike: I still don't have the leg strength to move my 300 pounds and a 30 pound backpack up the modest hill where I live, so I walk the bike up the hill, but at least I can carry the bicycle in too.
Biking: I am finally strong enough to ride it halfway up the modest hill to where I live.
I'm sure it will be even easier when I stop weighing 300 lbs. (eventually below 200)
Just to frustrate the squirrels and racoons, I grind all food scraps, even Chloe's so-called spoiled cat food, down the garbage disposal. (I am beginning to think Chloe is simply a spoiled cat). That would make a great cartoon. Wastebasket on left with a heaping pile of old cat food, "spoiled" cat food. Cat eating on right, spoiled cat.
No garden. The landscaping crew being in their own mulch if we use it at all.
Americans are kind of convenience minded. I observed the same stunt of driving trash bags to the dumpster back in Greenbelt. Gas was cheaper then.
Another environmental hint: take household batteries and leftover cleaning and household chemicals to a hazardous waste city set up by the city or county. Households and residents only.
Alexandria, VA city: Wheeler Rd., off of Duke St., McDonalds, traffic light at intersection. What kind of an idiot facility runs only on Mondays during business hours?
Arlington VA county: South Glebe Rd., across street from waste water treatment facility between Arlington Ridge Road and Eads St.
A local organic market, MOM, or My Organic Market, will happily collect your batteries (household) whenever they are open, and send them somewhere (a waste facility) later. I think that is just to get us Giant Food shoppers in there (those of us who take comfort in mass chain grocery stores)
Buy a crosscut shredder (shreds horizontal and vertical into strips maybe the size of a match) to shred anything you know or suspect can be traced back to you.
I'd mix the shreddings with Chloe's used cat litter. Not sure if I would recycle it.
I know the droppings can be flushed, and maybe they should be. But then I wouldn't have a deterrent to go digging through the shredded paper bits, if I mixed those in.
Yeah, I was reading in National Geographic how high-tech waste ends up in countries like Ghana and India or China. Kids would burn the insulation off wires to sell the metal wiring. Lead or something is melted in pots that are also used for cooking food (BIOHAZARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Responsible recyclers on the other hand can turn computer monitors into TV sets in some countries.
I try to send all household batteries (I did toss a few alkalines during the move in conventional household garbage) and electronics waste (like my DVD player with a DVD stuck in it) to the Alexandria Hazardous Waste dropoff facility on Wheeler Avenue (Wheeler Avenue and Duke Street intersect at a McDonald's). The facility is open 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM on Mondays ONLY. I think whoever decided to open it on Monday only was hanging around lead too long.
But driving three or four miles is not friendly to the environment either, so I can walk/bike over to the organic market about 800 meters (half a mile) and dispose of alkaline batteries, rechargable batteries, and spent compact flourescent light bulbs (I haven't had a CFC bulb burn out yet, nor one break, though I did drop one while putting them in the new flat's ceiling fixtures. I also took the incandescents that came with the new flat and sent them upstairs to replace the CFCs I took away). Good idea. It gets guys like me who would never consider organic food in the market.
If I possibly can I try giving the stuff away at the nearest Goodwill (charity, resells at thrift shops to provide job training and other services for the disabled and disadvantaged). Goodwill has a lower case g that looks like a smiling goon.
