Originally Posted by MNgopher
.......... And I'll send you the bill in your taxes when the work has to be done, and I'm sure there will be complaining about that too.
You keep carrying on about the cost, in an almost bragging fashion. And that's just it. The work doesn't, "have to be done". Those costs are being created by the same feel good, liberal "green" politicians who levied them in the first place. Because they have managed to convince people how terrible this stuff supposedly is. And if they throw enough money at it, they just might be able to, "fix it". When the fact is the world is not going to perish if you stop cleaning out a few ponds on the taxpayers dime.
These costs are not necessary. And even if they were, you would have a hard time convincing people it was all created by a few suburbanites trying to preserve their driveways. Especially when you have other far more massive uses of the product, (Coal Tar), that go completely unchecked, and are creating far more of the same type of contamination, as I have outlined. If this product is so dangerous to mankind, doesn't it make sense to start the cleanup process with the biggest problem?
As I pointed out, you have far greater contamination being caused nationwide by railroad ties and utility poles, than you do a few blacktop suburban driveways. Yet you think I'm deflecting when I point to that. You've got your finger in the dike, wasting millions of dollars at the same time, while the whole dam is crumbling around you.
It's much the same deal with a lot of these anti pollution efforts that cost a fortune to implement, but are short to completely non existent on results. Just like many counties refusing to issue license tags to people who's vehicles emit .0002 parts per million too many hydrocarbons, when you have a country like China opening 2 new coal fired electric power plants every week. It's not accomplishing anything against the overall problem. Last time I looked, the entire world shares the same atmosphere.
When I lived in Phoenix, (Maricopa County), I was required by law to pay, and have my vehicles emissions tested every year. If I didn't, or else had them tested and they failed, they would not issue license tags. Now I live in the same state, just 200 miles away in Mohave County, and they require no such testing. Where is the common sense in that? There isn't any because all of this has nothing to do with "clean air", and everything to do with $$$$$$..... Just like your multi million dollar pond cleaning scam. Unless it's done everywhere it's totally pointless, and you know it.
I like a clean environment as much or more as the next guy. But this is certainly not the way to achieve it. It's nothing more than the easy way out, by creating feel good legislation that costs a fortune to implement, but accomplishes little to nothing in the overall scheme of things. It's a bit like worrying about the luminous dial on your watch, when you live 100 miles away from Chernobyl.