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MNG>Don't you really mean his anti-environmentalist record.  There are
MNG>more ways to protect the environment than those demanded by the
MNG>professional environmentalists.

        And what are those?

Dave, everywhere I look you are asking for specifics.  Chew on this.
Our state Department of Transportation proposed a weather monitoring
program.  which would identify temp., wind, sun patterns likely to cause
ozone formation in ranges approaching 100 parts per billion (the current
standard being 120PPB with some educated thought that it would be more
suitably set at 80PPB).  When weather forecast indicated the potential for
such events the DOT would announce this beginning early in the morning and
would make mass transit free for that day.

Our professional environmentalists, that would be the Department of
Environmental Management, rejected this approach out of hand.  It does not
meet with their view of what a smog control program should be, which is in
fact not a smog control program, but a people control program.  Their
efforts inherently focus on making owning a car as inconvenient and
expensive as possible year round, and not on mitigating ozone at
predictably difficult times.

All of this in an area where we have only 1 exceedance of the current
standard per year in our most urbanized locations.

You may applaud the environmentalists approach if you join them in their
anti-car agenda, but this is but one of thousands on thousands of examples
in which professional environmentalists reject any solution except their
own.  Fortunately, they are no longer calling all the shots, nor are their
NGO buddies.  I look forward to years ahead where we actually engage in
give and take on these issues.  I wonder if you do?