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From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: W. on the Environment L3
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: W. on the Environment L3
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> > At 07:52 PM 5/30/01 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote:
> > >Now we're getting our garbage collected by the city of Austin, and the
> way
> > >Austin does the garbage, you pay a garbage rate based on the size of
your
> > >garbage barrel (30 gallons, 60 gallons or 90 gallons) and get to
recycle
> > >all you want for free.
> >
> > And what State is that in?
> >
> > JDG - Who after listening to the media during the last election, thought
> > that Texans considered the only good environment a paved environment
with
> > smoggy air.
>
> Well, its sort of a mixed thing. Personal environmental efforts are
favored
> in certain places like Austin, or certain suburbs of big cities. Things
like
> mass transit or industrial regulations find a harder go of it. My personal
> complaint is that the air quality in Houston does really affect health.
My
> son was on breathing treatments 3 times per day until we moved North.
Then
> he was off them in two weeks. Yes, its also the mold and stuff, but the
> pollution doesn't help at all. One of the reasons I'm pro-nuclear. Its
> healthier. :-)
>
Which part of town did you live in before?
My son has "colds" and "sinus" when he is on the southwest side of town with
his mom, but it clears up in a couple of hours when I have him over in Clear
Lake.
xponent
rob
