http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399148752/qid=1038786734/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-8854062-9423845?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
These co-authors were on Book TV, on C-Span, discussing this cop's infiltration of the NYC mob, and their complete total monopoly over garbage collection. He came in where NYC mandated separation of garbage, for recycling, and the mob's structure started to have more conflicts with recyclers. While, obviously, this was not about renewable energy, it does touch on some of the topics that have come up in our discussion of wondering about NYC recycling and biofuel progress (which are, obviously, inter-twined). The burrough of Staten Island is, apparently, not only home to what I think is the World's largest landfill (I wonder if they're capturing any methane), but also is (or was) a big center of mob living. This investigation netted 72 indictments and 72 convictions. The mafia's affect over the years on the cost of garbage hauling was huge. An estimate of 40% higher than in a competitive market was cited, but some who experienced it would cite this as a low estimate, pointing at violence and murders that occurred against those who bucked the trend (everyday people who did not want to use them for trash hauling who were taken up to the tops of buildings and reminded of how far down it was) and another example was given of a large building which was paying $100,000 per month for trash hauling under the mob, but which under subsequent competitive hauling was paying $9000 per month. Giuliani apparently cited mob control over this industry as an important factor as to the high cost of living in NYC. So, I don't know what the level of progress is, in getting better recycling of waste-to-fuel of NYC biowastes, but perhaps it will be somewhat better now that some of the anti-competitive forces are removed. The authors did not pretend that all illegal activity has been removed; they only claimed that the overall higher-up organized criminal highly economically sophisticated controlling structure was taken down. MM Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
