"Trade It In For Cleaner Air"

[ZooFuzz]

Richland County is currently working with Lexington County, Keep the Midlands Beautiful, and SC DHEC on an electric lawnmower exchange event to be held in the early spring of 2007. To help us plan for the event, please take a moment to complete this brief survey. It shouldn’t take you more than a minute.

http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB225NHHUUQTQ (http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB225NHHUUQTQ)

Please don’t hesitate to send the link to friends, neighbors, and family.

Thanks for your valuable input!

http://www.friendsofsc.com/forums/cid:image001.jpg@01C6E7A4.5875DD50Joseph M. Cronin
Research Manager
Richland County Government
2020 Hampton Street
Columbia, SC 29202
(803) 576-2066
joecronin@richlandonline.com



The following message is brought to you by a partnership of Lexington County, Richland County, Keep the Midlands Beautiful, and SC DHEC.

As part of South Carolina's 2007 Emissions Reduction Campaign, you have been selected to participate in a voluntary survey to help us improve our community's Air Quality. The link below will take you to a survey that will ask you questions about your lawnmower use. We will use your answers to help us plan a "Trade It In For Cleaner Air" lawn mower exchange, currently scheduled for March/April 2007 for Richland and Lexington Counties.

The "Trade It In For Cleaner Air" event will offer participants a great discount on a new electric lawn mower when they bring in their old gas-powered mower to be recycled.

Operating a lawn mower releases chemicals that create Ground Level Ozone, a federally regulated criteria air pollutant. This is especially true of old lawn mowers, and includes leaf blowers, weed trimmers, chainsaws, and other gas-powered lawn equipment. By participating in the event, residents will be able to get a great deal on a new electric mower, AND promote good Air Quality at the same time!

For more information about the "Trade It In For Cleaner Air" event, please contact Christa Jordan at 803-898-2233.

For more information about Ground Level Ozone, including its impact on your health, visit www.scdhec.gov/baq (http://www.scdhec.gov/baq).

To take the survey, please click on the link: http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB225NHHUUQTQ (http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB225NHHUUQTQ)

[swampfox]

You know, one thing I noticed every day while I was in the old country was that they have successfully gotten the people to switch to small, fuel-efficient cars. Of course gas costing about $5.25 a gallon was a big reason, but they've gone farther than that. Any vehicle above a certain horsepower level has to have a diesel engine, at least in the Czech Republic. Of course this applies to new cars only. There are still a lot of smoking Skodas and Trabants around.

So here we are in the USA, dying (often literally) over the price and availability of oil, while there are cars with much lower consumption, made by the same companies that sell here (including Ford), and we can't even get those models. I mean these cars are already being made in large numbers. It's not like the engineers would have to hit the drawing boards.

On top of that, there is very good public transportation that will get you real close to just about anywhere you want to go, even way out in the country. And it's cheap. It's also clean.

For one example, the mini-suvs there are a lot smaller than big suvs, not just a little smaller like a RAV-4. Google Kangoo and Berlingo (image search) if you want to see some.

Our """"leaders"""" keep talking about energy independence, but it's now painfully obvious to me that they don't mean a damn word of it. We send the military to basically fight for oil that we could easily learn to do without (or for the protection of oil reserves, something that Iran could take away from us whenever they feel like it) .

Does anybody remember that company, Halliburton?

[cuebald]

Great idea with the horsepower differential thing.

While we're at it here we ought to limit all boat motors in the state to no more than 10 HP unless they have a yearly stamp affixed at, say, $10 per extra HP per year. Great revenue raiser, pollution reducer, and noise
eliminator. And the fishing should improve.

Lake Murray might be worth going to again if you didn't have to worry about being run over.