bike lane?! where!

Babbar

Yes, the internal combustion engine does put out a lot of foul smelling by-products. However, the belief that this is ruining the ozone layer is a myth unsupportable by science. You can always find a "scientist" or two who will swear to anything, but the science is the ozone layer is pretty much immune to auto exhaust.

Solar power is not viable. It may work on a small scale, but what do you do at night or when there is cloud cover? Storage batteries? You want a bunch of storage batteries in your basement, with the acid and fumes coming off them? You may, but I sure don't.

Wind farms? The technology is far from perfected and it is not an ecnomically viable alternative. Besides, the environmentalists who say this is the answer don't want any of the windfarms anywhere near where they live.

So all we have to do is close the doors at NASA and use the money to solve all the countries problems? What about all the people who work at NASA, the industries that exist solely or almost solely to support NASA and space flight? What about all the good things that have been invented for the space program that have become invaluable in our everyday life, like Teflon?

We could just as easily disestablish the EPA and use that money to clean up smokestacks, exhaust fumes, and other "pollutants." We could even use EPA's money to study the manufacture of artificaial ozone. How about the Departments of Education, HHS, Agriculture, and countless bureaus and organizations that have no authority for existence? We could take that money and turn it back to the states, where the problem of the homeless can be better handled.

But, then, we run into the same problems as with NASA. One man's cash cow is another man's life and livelihood.

Twisties

....ok.

everything seams a lot simpler when ur 14...

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Twisties, I am sorry for going off like that, and you are so right that when you are 14 everything is very simple. I am just a tad older than you, in fact, I have children that are more than twice your age.

Hang in there and as you get older things tend to get a lot more involved. Wait a minute! Do a Peter Pan and stay 14 forever!

Sidi

I say we build all the nations Nuclear Power plants right there in Maryland right in your back yard. And hope we dont have a Six Mile Island meltdown like it nearly happened. Or how about Savanna?
Don't be so quick to build nuclear. That waste sticks around for many years after you are dead and gone and forgotten. It sticks around so long that nobody can guarantee that the usa will be even speaking english or even be on this planet called earth.
So yeah. You want Nuclear power. Build it in your back yard and bury your nuclear waste with a half-life of 10.000 years in your front yard, not mine.
Want that right in your back yard?

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