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Dryden Dems met last night to discuss dealing with energy costs at the local level. Lots of chat about alternative energy, park-and-rides, the evils of corn-based ethanol, and public transportation. I'd ride the bus if it came anywhere close by, but it doesn't. So I'm test-driving a Hyundai four-door Accent today. It's cute and drives well, and the trunk space is ample compared to the three-door hatchback, but the ceiling's low enough that I feel claustrophobic. Nevertheless, it may be my new car, although I refuse to pay for the XM-Radio in this particular model.
It irritates me that no one can do decent mileage in an AWD car (barring the few hybrid models, which are too pricey for me).
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Other things we're doing to conserve this month: composting in our new composter, lugging Wegman's stuff in our cloth Wegman's bags, reducing plastic bags in O's lunchbox.
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Don't forget to fiddle while Rome burns...
Fiddling away! Be fair; I also raked our poor local congressional aide over the coals about biofuels. Our little group also talked about a Congressional lawsuit against OPEC for violating antitrust laws (!), using church parking lots as commuter park-and-ride lots, locating citizens now who will need home heating help in the winter of 2008-09, and establishing Dryden as a home for Cooperative Extension's grass-burning pellet manufacturing. Every little bit helps, maybe.
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