From: xmpcwsh@dp7up.com (Bill Harris)
Subject: Re: Gore's environmental ideas
Organization: Dr Pepper Company/The Seven-Up Company, Dallas
Distribution: tx
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 15:07:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct31.210334.21885@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>
>If  Gore's approach was as you portray it, I would quite agree.
>However, in the interests of correct information, Senator Gore has
>spoken in favor of just such a carbon tax in SEVERAL nationally
>televised speeches.  I also have to differ with you as to what the
>Republicans lean toward.  From what I've seen, they lean toward doing
>nothing at all about the problem until it hits their neighborhood
>(like finding the ozone hole over Kennebunkport).  Then when they DO
>do something, the impacts are targeted on the bottom 80% or so of the
>economic spectrum.
>

C'mon, if Gore had his way, he would do away with all cars, as he's stated.
He is so atypical of the environmental wacko groups.   Seriously, these
people are sitting at the steps of universities waiting on the latest
press pak from the latest "Scientific Survey".  

Does anyone remember it was just a few years ago that the science community
came out and said we where destroying the Ozone layer because of the use
of aerosol (didn't spell that right).  Or just recently when they said there
was a huge hole developing in the layer above the poles.  Of course these 
groups and their megaphones like Gore don't bring up the later articles about 
when there wasn't actually a hole, just normal fluctuations in the layer.

It was just a few years ago, that the science community said we where 
heading for GLOBAL COOLING, not Warming.  Remember when they
predicted the coming of the next Ice Age?  Listen, man has been on this
globe for so short a period of time, but can be so 'arrogant' with claims
to have all the answer's and knowledge of his everything that goes on 
around him.

It makes me sick to hear these so-called environmental groups claim
that because I burn an oil and gas mixture in my gas-powered weed-eater,
and my Kawasaki dirt bike, that I'm a major contributer to the total
destruction of the ozone layer.  Don't people realize that just one,
I repeat 1, major volcanic eruption spews more hydrocarbons, ash, and
gases into the atmosphere than the total of all the engines, turbines, 
and factories emission's in the last 100 years?   Now, I realize that
this view is not politically correct, but I'm afraid people are
getting a real snow job by some of these groups.  I garuntee you, that
if the earth's temperature rises a few degrees, it won't be because
the Lincoln Limo our CEO drives, but would more likely due to the
ever increasing volcanic activity that we are seeing.

You just don't know how bad it hurts me to crank up my dirt bike and 
realize the little cloud of blue hydrocarbons I just spewed out is
causing more damage to the atmosphere than all of Mt. St Helen's millions
of ton's of ash and gases.  I remember when they tracked that dust cloud
into Europe.
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