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To: etchmeister who wrote (25021)	9/7/2011 11:33:33 PM
From: etchmeister	Respond to of 25522

Volunteer departments that were already facing financial strain were slated to have their funding cut from $30 million to $7 million, according to KVUE. The majority of Texas is protected by volunteer fire departments. There are 879 volunteer fire departments in Texas and only 114 paid fire departments. Another 187 departments are a combination of volunteer and paid. Doing the math 879 fire departments have a hard time to pay for the fuel of running the engines/trucks - that's not funny Assuming 879 fire departments own 2000 engines/trucks they would have $3500 per engine - I do not believe they qualify for "off road diesel fuel" which is tax exempt - at $ 3 per gal of diesel and mpg of 10 miles per gallon the average range of the engine/fire truck is about 120 miles!!!

To: etchmeister who wrote (25021)	9/7/2011 11:49:03 PM
From: etchmeister	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

What a hypocritical moron: While the Texas governor has been highly critical of FEMA in the past, he told CBS’ Erica Hill Tuesday that now was not the time to worry about reforming the agency. “The issue is taking care of these people right now,” Perry insisted. “We can work our way through any conversations about how to make agencies more efficient, how to make Department of Defense equipment, for instance, more available. There are a lot of issues we can talk about, but the fact of the matter is now is not the time to be trying to work out the details of how to make these agencies more efficient. Let’s get people out of harm’s way.”