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To: TimF who wrote (13377)	5/24/2002 5:27:51 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 21057

I suspect that the author may be right that farms cause a lot more environmental damage then oil drilling. The EPA knows this and has been trying to deal with it. Problem is that big business pollution is easier to regulate. That is, it's easier to pass laws to regulate them. Everybody is an environmentalist when some deep pockets producer is at fault. The closer it gets to you and me changing how we live, the less willing the electorate is to regulate. You've got small farmers being affected. And even if the farmers aren't small, the regulations may increase the price of food, which affects voters. So the regulation isn't a function of the amount of pollution but rather on what is politically doable. If it were otherwise, we wouldn't be using gas lawn mowers or cooling this weekend on the barby, both of which cause a lot of pollution, but there would be an uproar. I was taken aback my that article's premise that there were lefty environmentalists (as opposed to some other kind of environmentalists) who were picking on business. I don't think his conclusion is sound.