okay
so what do you uh think is the uh the worst culprit for air pollution
well i think it's it's probably a combination of things um factories that that burn coal as uh an energy source
with uh sulfur and nitrogen contaminants you know and you get sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides
um-hum
uh those are the ones i think primarily contribute to acid rain and i think that's
that's probably hurting us a little bit it's hurting you know other countries it's hurting Germany for example too and some other parts of Europe where they where they have high industry
so we're not the lone ranger here
yeah
well it's i uh it's hard to put the finger on uh what's worse you know the acid rain situation or the ozone depletion um
with uh your hydrocarbons uh
yeah
causing the damage in which
hopefully we're backing off from that a little bit but i know we haven't cured it yet by a long shot
well well i notice on one of these uh home shopping networks they were selling these uh halogen uh fire extinguishers
yeah
and the halogen is uh an ozone depleter and it got hydrocarbons in there
it's a very clean uh fire extinguisher but it's you know really bad on the environment
yeah huh
yeah i guess i missed that one uh
yeah
automobiles of course are contributing too and you know how how we are with our love affair with the auto
oh yeah
yeah
kind of hard to do anything about that i guess
i know uh in the Twin Cities area i just moved out of there and was kind of happy i timed it just right but they had a new policy where in order to get your uh your license uh your car license
uh renewed you had to meet the pollution standards
yeah
and uh
we we have that here too but it's part of the inspection sticker you know they put a probe in your exhaust pipe and and the computer reads whatever the ionization is coming out and
yeah
so that's you know that's the way they're dealing with it here
yeah and yeah i guess that was just mainly in the cities there and i
as far as where i live i don't have to do that but
yeah
i have an old car which i doubt would uh
would uh pass the inspection a seventy six and
uh you know there's no way i would put in a lot of money to to repair it to meet standards
yeah
it probably be difficult anyway
yeah
so although i do what i can to to cut down pollution
but uh
i was just reading an article in uh Mother Earth News Mother Earth News Magazine
yeah
and uh they've got a new um you know a lot of places are burning wood a lot of lot of people are burning wood those of us who have i've got a place in the country and uh
yeah
um-hum
and uh they've had catalytic converters you know catalytic converters on those on uh i think they're required in California and Oregon and and Washington
but they've had out those for quite a while and somebody's come up with a new one that uh sort of it's a it's a catalytic converter it's a catalytic it's a plate that fits in you know into the smoke pipe
yeah
and uh apparently it sort of feeds itself the more smoke is produced uh the you know after you get to like five hundred degrees
the the higher it gets so the the more complete the combustion is
and it sounds real neat i haven't seen them priced anywhere yet but that that sounds like that might help solve that problem even on you know old old uh
yeah
older stoves that don't have any kind of EPA requirements on them
that might help a little bit especially in some places we're really lucky here we have a prevailing southerly wind that blows just about everything out
yeah
now sometimes we get a kind of a especially in in uh autumn it seems like we get a kind of a brown haze sitting on us
but most of the time it's blowing out pretty well probably blowing up there to you guys
yeah
yeah well well around here our we get the well depends you know either in the
in the winter time it it blows it your way
and in the summer time we probably get yours
yeah it comes back
yeah
i really think that um
you know we're doing some some important things education uh raising consciousness awareness uh and i know school kids i work for school district here and uh
you know this is one of the big things with kids kids are writing letters to the newspapers about you know uh telling adults to clean up their act and
yeah
it's uh
you know it hope we're not too late with it we're
we're uh we're having all kinds of recycling
yeah well it it that's that's a a big thing too i i know it's has nothing do with air pollution but i kind of look at the way people treat our
