Stupid EPA Regulations -
its interesting to note, where Im at is rural, mostly conservatives live around here. You dont see garbage on the side of the roads, our yards are clean, we dont dump our oil into our yards (we dont have storm drains) we mostly keep it pristine as much as we can, I can drive 7 miles to the store in 10 minutes without hitting traffic lights..My acreage is fully wooded except for a grass field that I keep for the hell of it, my property generates enough oxygen for a couple of families.
Then you go to the less rural area that in this state at least, are mostly liberals, there is garbage all over the sides of the road, trash is making its way to the storm drains and out to the bay, people just throw their trash and uneaten food in the streets, the air actually smells like rotting garbage. and to travel by car through the city can take an hour or more of sitting at traffic lights wasting fuel and adding to the air pollution index greatly. Plus there are no trees or grass areas to produce oxygen.
And these liberals are the people that will try to tell us conservatives where I live, how to be environmentally friendly? When these people can manage to live as environmentally friendly as I do, then they might have the right to talk to me about these things, until then, start looking right outside your own front door.
Get rid of the EPA all together and go with Newts Idea as mentioned in the article I linked. If we got rid of all cities our pollution would be decreased thousands of times over.