okay
okay Carol
so air quality
yeah is it i know in here uh downtown Dallas it's you i mean you drive by and you can just
you can see it but then again i was originally was from California and uh there is a big difference between Texas and California
uh-huh
surely
and uh they'd have their smog alerts and where you'd have to stay indoors for so many hours with an air conditioner and of course they don't have that here in Texas
so there's
you mean they don't have the uh the smog alerts
no not in not in Texas not well not in Dallas that is
right i i yeah i spent a summer in in in Tyler
so i know
just east of Dallas there
yeah we're going there tomorrow uh-huh we're packing and getting ready to go to
oh really
yeah
actually i'm a California born person
uh-huh
i was born in LA so i know what you're talking about in LA it's pretty bad
yeah oh okay yeah you do then
um the worst city in the in the world is actually uh Mexico City
is it really i would not imagine that
yes
the worst one for smog is Mexico City
huh
the most polluted city in the world
huh you learn something every day
is that crazy
yeah i know that they've they're looking at uh um
you know uh you know better running automobiles
uh-huh yeah i've seen that
um
some things they do one one one one of them is they're using corn in fuel
huh i huh-uh
you ever heard of that yeah Methanol
huh no
yeah well that's big up here because of the they grow a lot of corn
oh yeah
yeah
uh
yeah that's one thing that they do and at at that it's pretty easy to do and the uh
uh-huh
unfortunately it still contributes to global warming cause you have to wipe you know wipe out forest to grow corn and things like that it doesn't make sense
yeah that's true
uh but it's you know one of the most uh productive crop in the world is corn
right
huh
and of course i doubt if there's any you can buy regular anymore you buy unleaded right
yeah
yeah
huh
drive cars with catalytic converters and all that
it's interesting they're they're looking at at
there's some work being done on uh automobiles that are electric powered
uh-huh
and uh they're looking at where you have a battery operated car basically but it has a a engine in the back that charges it so the engine kicks on when the batteries need power and it turns off
uh-huh
uh-huh
interesting thing about gas is when i mean about battery powered cars is when you're at a stop light you're not using energy any energy
huh that is good
unlike a car where it's running
yeah
electric car it's on demand i mean it's either on or off basically
yeah
huh
you don't have to shift
so you cars become very simple all of a sudden too
oh
oh
very interesting
that would be nice
i think i saw that on TV one time they maybe it was CNN where they were demonstrating that or something similar to that
yeah
there's a there's a race in Australia with solar powered cars
oh
and Ford and General Motors and all those compete
but what what what i think that was a setback a a setback that they i don't know they went i don't know how many miles an hour i think like twenty
right
was was that something maybe it was i don't know
yeah GM uh Chrysler announced that they're going to they're well they actually have an electric minivan
oh
yeah their their Caravan
huh
but it costs uh fifty thousand dollars right now
yeah and they're they're very expensive too
i was gonna
to operate yeah
but you know people are buying them you know whose buying them the power company
free you know free for them
well yeah yeah
kind of interesting so see
well it doesn't make sense because if they want people to convert you know
uh-huh
they should make it worthwhile
yeah it's top speed is something like eighty miles an hour so it's a good good vehicle
yeah yeah hum
well i'll tell you sometimes it's it's pretty bad here today like today i think it was pretty bad i don't know if it was if it's just uh allergies or what but
uh-huh
some days it's really it's very nice here downtown and other days it's just really bad
so
i don't know
so what what kind of things did you experience in LA when you were there or can you remember were you there at a
oh i wasn't there too long ago um
cause i haven't been there probably
well you know you going over the hills you know coming into the valley you can see that horrible horrible brown haze
yeah
well we were there when they had a
