"Dee Dee" <deedovey@shentel.net> wrote in message
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> "Steve Wertz" <swertz@cluemail.compost> wrote in message
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>> Meanwhile I have a bike and walk around town next to your cars
>> and SUV's spewing forth all sorts of noxious fumes, poisoning the
>> environment, driving up the cost of food, and depositing soot all
>> over the streets and buildings. Not to mention causing wars and
>> the death of several thousand US military and civilians.
>>
>> -sw
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> Nobody ever mentions TRUCKS!; I can't get from here to there without being
> caught in a 'train' of trucks.
> What mileage per gallon do they get and the exhaust is nauseating (sp?)
> Nobody ever mentions recreational RV's. They are on the road going back
> and forth Canada to Florida. What mileage per gallon do they get. A good
> incentive to not tailgate. Who wants to breath all these fumes.
>
> I often wonder when I see people walking around the miltiary academy track
> near here; women with baby carts, walking and talking while the cars whiz
> by exhausting their fumes. I tried it once and gagged.
>
> I had a trail backhoed around my yard; is there anyway you can get far
> enough away with your bike away from this and just take a nice clean walk?
> Dee Dee

In the Philly area we have 40 miles of bike paths running along the river.
Most are far from car exhaust and factory smokestacks (except for the 1/4
mile that runs by the sewage treatment plant - phewwwww!).

Jon