First Name | Ellen |
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Last Name | McRae |
Email Address | siwaban@gmail.com |
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Subject | Clean fuel laws |
Comment | I am a native Californian born with severe asthma. When I was a child growing up the air quality in some places like LA, San Fernando Valley and San Bernardino was horrendous. Frequently my eyes burned and my need for medication went up. Thank God some people wised up and passed some clean fuel requirements, enabling the smog to go down at least somewhat since the 1970s. The selfishness and small-mindedness of the oil and coal industries who, recognising that these resources are finite and who now want freedom to engage in any form of high-pollution production and/or composition of fuel, or any relaxation of air quality regulations. There are many people like myself, born with asthma and other severe respiratory allergies--for whom smog represents a consignment to early death. Just because we were born with this handicap does not make us 2nd class citizens, forced to give up part of our lives to let the industries fill their bank accounts. The oil and coal industries need to move forward, not backward. It is past time for American ingenuity to come up with something better than tar sands mining, fracking and other energy sources fraught with more extreme pollution. It's time to get engineers and scientists on the job designing the energy sources of the 21st Century--fund these efforts with the money now used to subsidise old dirty technologies. And don't cave into the old industry hacks who want to prolong the 20th Century thinking. Sincerely, Ellen McRae |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2011-12-10 11:28:15 |
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