Originally Posted by: Kevin TaylorMy take on the whole thing is this:
I have friends who are environment freaks.
My old girlfriend used to sulk whenever I threw old newspapers on the fireplace... My neighbors divide all their cans, papers, bottles etc....

Blah.... I personally don't give a crap. I save up all my old paper and cardboard... frozen food containers...scraps etc.... and toss em in the fireplace.

when I make a sandwich, I use a sheet of printer paper to cover the counter.
I make the sandwich and use a towel to wipe the dirty knife.
I use the sheet of used print paper to hold the pickles or whatever and then transfer that to the table...or living room if I'm watching a movie. I use the same piece of paper to hold the pickles.
When I'm finished, I screw up the paper and thow it in th fireplace.

After a few days, I light up crap in the fireplace to warm the room (haven't used the heat yet this year)

Same thing goes for anything else in the room... Old boxes magazines...whatever. It all goes on the fireplace.

I haven't turned the central heating on at all this month.
In fact it's so warm right now I have the fan going.

I beg your forgiveness...........................
It's not that I'm a Pro-Global warming advocate and I certainly don't believe that igniting a fire daily has anything to do with this topic in any way....
However, as a National Manufacturer who's raw product line derives from a process referred as "Stripped Mining", I deal with Environmental Agencies about as often as changing guitar strings. It's obvious that vehicle emissions are a standard topic of concern and with the amount of vehicles that is understood. It's the things that aren't released to the General Public that make a bigger picture. The concern from the most populated areas of the world aren't helping matters. Places like Sumgayit, Azerbaijan, with their Mercury emissions, Tianying, China, mining Lead, Dzerzinsk, Russia, chemical weapons manufacturing since the cold war era, India's chromite mining and the list goes on.. The Chernobyl temporary fix was estimated to last between 20 and 30 years. The reactor meltdown occurred in 1986. Time for another bandaid.
Is it causing Global Warming???? Who knows... Is it helping the environment, I highly doubt it...........