Fossil fuels can be avoided
Thank you, good paper, for publishing the monthly “Down to Earth – a Guide to Green Living” insert. How inspiring it is to learn what is being done to help keep our human life support systems – the natural world – become healthier and fully functioning. If they collapse, we humans are goners.
The article in the September issue on powering automobiles with discarded deep-fry oil was especially interesting to me because my friends, Jim and Denise Mannino, longtime Spokane-area residents now living on the coast, have converted their car to run on grease. They average 42 miles per gallon and their emissions test was 98 percent pure, much to the amazement of the operators.
While grease isn’t the solution to our petroleum addiction, it illustrates that there are fuels other than nonrenewable fossils – oil, coal, gas – to power our world. Other countries, especially Denmark and Germany, are far ahead of us in already using alternative fuels. Fossil fuels WILL run out sooner or later! Why not begin now to develop and use Earth-sustainable power sources?
Bernadine Van Thiel
Spokane