[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

All this handwringing and agonizing down in Texas is proof that the EPA is nuts and should be abolished.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Robert Cluck: We have the political will; we've demonstrated that, I think. The public, however, is not engaged. They don't care if it's 85 or a thousand parts per billion because they do not understand the public health risks.

We see at our hospital huge numbers of people who have preventable pulmonary disease, much of it permanent. We're seeing a huge spike in lung cancers in people who've never smoked, never been exposed to second-hand smoke. I have a very strong feeling that that's because of the air that we breathe and the stuff that's floating in the air. But folks don't know that.

Until we energize and engage the public, regardless of how much we lead, until the public engages in this discussion in some way, I don't think we'll be successful.

We really have to concentrate on letting people know what the cars, automobiles are doing, what the power plants are doing, cement fumes are doing. They're killing people, and they're maiming people, and they're hurting people every day. That's my message in Arlington. We've got this serious problem that's a public health emergency. Just like the pandemic flu.

Captain Hyperbole to the rescue! (The situation is at least a million billion times worse than I imagined.)

[PAR35]

There are two monitors, one in Frisco and one in Denton, that still do not show that they'll make the 85 parts per billion

Downwind from DFW airport. Just close the airport and the Metroplex will be in compliance.

For confirmation of my theory, I would refer you to the pollution readings from September, 2001.