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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (120566)	7/19/2000 2:12:57 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570651

Jim, So, you're a geezer now? Actually, I think that the cashier was just kind of dense. I thought you were coming around to a more libertarian, anarchist point of view but I guess party lines die hard... Environmental issues are one area where government intervention has been proven essential. When I was growing up in northern New Mexico, the air was so dirty that you could rarely see across the Rio Grande Valley to the Sangre De Cristo mountains. Most of this pollution was due to a single power plant at Four Corners, owned by Arizona Public Service. A bill passed Congress forcing APS to put electrostatic precipitators on the power plant. APS complained bitterly that the law would put them out of business. Needless to say, the air got cleaned up and APS continued making lots of money for a couple of decades until they sank 5 billion dollars into the Palo Verde Nuclear boondoggle. No doubt that tobacco is a carcinogen, my uncle (one of the first studies) and some others proved that 35 years ago. No doubt that 35 years from now, we will all get together on the tropical island of Greenland, and say the same thing about global warming. Scumbria