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Aluminium prices are incredibly low as if it is oppressively done for unrelated reasons like metal thievery . I am sure that you heard news about lowlifers running around stealing copper wiring and pipes right out of equipments and churches.. etc.. I used to suspect that it had a lot to do with industrial heavyweights who want to see metal prices kept low so to maximize profits. Now I am pointing to scrap metal dealers for being willing to pay in cash to anybody that comes with metal scraps ... I think that our government can and should outlaw the use of cash to pay any scrap metal sellers or low lifers.. Either sellers has to be certified or be paid in kinds as long as it is not cash like paying the seller's expenses electronically. That way , low lifers cannot get any cash and they usually have nothing like accounts that can be credited electronically for thier sales of stolen metal scrap of any kind.. We can still allow low lifers to steal steel and iron as they are to heavy and worth less as well as difficult to rip off anywhere. They can go out in the boonies where there is plenty of old rusty vehicles that they can haul out to sell no question asked, I dont care! Aluminium is supposed to be worth far more today yet it is still fetching a lousy dollar a pound today or 25 cent in 1980 dollars... Aluminium were trading at a dollar in 1980 which means that aluiminum shoudl be $4 by now... What the heck is going on ... is our govenrment asleep at the swtich ? or the trading pits?

I had complained to air quaility organizations and the likes about my neighbors daily usage of firewood and the associated smoke.. I still smell it coming out of the ground as if my neihgobr is employing some type of "fracking" the ground and put a pipe deep into the ground so to pump firewood smoke through the pipe deep into the ground .. I could feel rumblings as if there is some kind of drilling or tunneling or occassinal explosions coming from deep int the ground under my house.. I tried to combat this with water flooding.. my front lawn show huge cracks with wide gaps up to several inches across. My neighobrs apparently did more than one direction so that he can alwasy switch to other exhaust pipes deep udner ground as I flooded one area after another.. It is a futile effort to snuff out the smoke coming out of the cracks on my proprety created by my neighobrs.. I had watched mysterious people coming into my neighbor's houses. Maybe my neighobrs is using firewood as a coverup for illict behavior like chemcial disposal under my property.. EPA is really clueless .. I think. There is chemical plants nearby and they are using my property as a dumping place... I may be wrong about cheimcials but I am certain about firewood smoke coming out of the cracks on my property. The cracks are so unnatural .. I realize that there is huge gaps still existing at EPA and I am falling through the cracks.. Iam sure that I am not alone.. Pls dont call me crazy or something.. it is real and it is bizarree and insane !!

I live in a subdivision where an average number of 4-5 houses to an acre are built or called R-4 zoning which is very commonplace in America. So there is chimneys all over unlike apartments or condos in higher densities. Some condos or townhomes have chimneys, of course. I am asking this question that emphasize on the question of the hazards of firewood smoke being emitted by users living too close to eachother. I am sure that there is so many neighbors who tolerate firewood smoke that they dont enjoy at all unless the users are occassional types like during holidays or special events . I am aiming at daily users of firewood in certain zonings where they are too close to eachother. Should EPA pay closer attention to certain areas like that and toward daily users . Should EPA be prevented from grandfathering those houses because they are so close to eachother unlike coal fired powerplants that used to be grandfathered but no longer now.. I strongly believe that EPA should be more active in banning daily users of firewood in zonings like mine.. Health costs or quality of life is really bad if you are a unfortunate neighbor of a daily firewood user. EPA is not as forthcoming as I feel that EPA should about such unfortunate neighobrs like myself who live next door to both neighbors on my sides who use firewood everyday... I have headaches almost everyday. I am suffering greatly. So, readers, I can only ask that you stop and think or imagine what it is like to live next door to a daily firewood user or both on your sides.. I had read countless answers from readers about firewood smoke and I find that most of them do not really get the big picture for various reasons . Readers have to smell firewood smoke coming from neighobrs everday to really understand what it is like to live that way. It really is painful to ones' health and well being as one is constantly bombarded with firewood smoke.. EPA doesnt really appreciate such exceptional situations that I find myself in.. It is a really cruel thing of my neighobrs to keep doing to me.. Readers, stop and start thinking , ok?

I found out that there is safe mirrors already available that anyone can buy and mount in our yards or certain suitable locations to reflect much more sunlight toward our living quarters of homes and apartments.. Those safe mirrors are commonly bought for certain places like gymansiums, children centers , schools, etc.. Those mirrors are shatterproof and they are also useful for our solar energy programs .. Why are we so focused or tunnel visioned toward photovoltaics as if PVs is the only way we can harness solar energy ? Mirrors reflect over 90% of sunlight and they can be trained to point toward windows, sliding glass doors or even over skylights to heat indoors.. We can also use special solar furnaces that can receive concentrated sunlight from mirrors. Why arent we starting using such mirrors to help cut down our dependence on natural gas, heating oil, or electricity from coal and nuclear ,etc whenever the sun is shining. We can add automatic sun tracking devices to do the constant adjustments themselves without any of us having to trot outside to readjust them as the sun moves across the sky.. Sure, suntracking devices has to be computerized based on GPS and stuff to suit everybody's own location. This is not a simple thing to make which means it requires manufacturers to do so.. Why is our manufacturers still sitting on hands or even worse our government doing nothing with tax credits for such wonderful non-existentail products that we can have right now... Are we too overprotective of our fossil fuel industries??? Investors still believe that fossil fuel producers is the only energy providers we need for the forseeable future despite the increased potential of environmental damage that will happpen like in Arctic Ocean or other senstive locations that they are now after.. Should we stop the pace of our "crazy" fossil fuel producers with solar mirrors that are powerful enough to start taking lunch money away from them.. We should stop being so soft on fossil fuel investors and start giving them a run for their money!! Should we ? Safe mirrors are a very incredibly powerful energy source in terms of home heating that you traditionally receive from your central furnace or wall heaters or even fireplaces ... Safe mirrors are very incredible !!

With rising fossil fuel prices , more people are relying on firewood . In the past, we could afford to turn up the thermostat way up to get satisfactory warmth at homes. Now we are forced to turn down the thermostat to save money on expensive natural gas, heating oil or electricity coming from coal or nuclear or hydro. In quest of real warmth , we are begininng to use firewood more. a lot of trees are chopped down that you can see checker like patterns of bare forests and set aside forests if you fly over the mountains at certain locations. I saw many and it is alarming !! Indigenious people around the world are stripping forests bare that they are traveling further and further to obtain firewood. It seems to me that we are burning more firewood than coal already around the world.. many people including here in America are burning firewood on a daily basis.. EPA is sitting on hands and not doing much about the stark health effects on people living next door to daily firewood users who show no regards for their health.. Firewood smoke is bad but people are blocking it out of their minds ..

I am in midist of upgrading my desktop computer or getting a new laptop . I am looking at AMD Fusion APU and wondering if it is capable of enthusiast level gaming without any discrete graphic card required. I understand that AMD Fusion APU use Radeon 6xxx which I think is fast enough to handle enthusiast level gaming for the most part . I find it a little odd that AMD Fusion is not mentioned much in the gaming forums.

After reading answers mostly in oppositions to my questions on firewood control, I decide to tweak my question again . People appear to still think that firewood is a given which means that it is OK to burn firewood anywhere anytime. I oppose this view... Firewood smoke is not healthy to breath, simple as that. I am so certain that it helps drive up health costs and premiums . Nobody wants higher health costs but fail to connect the dots.... So this is what I am aiming at .. high density neighborhoods like four houses to an acre subdivisions at least. Yes, there is fireplaces in condos, townhouses , too. I am not asking this question to ranchers with acreage or farmers or even cavemen... They need not answer here.. I am asking any of you who live in subdivisions and condos generally if you really pay attention to PM2.5 or PM10 a measurement of particulates floating in the immediate air above your roof or even on the ground level.. I also mean that if you really trust the data based on where they are measured? Are they actually measured at locations close to the chimneys or stovepipes that is comparable to close proximity of neighborhoods? I suspect that measurements of PM2.5 or 10 is very misleading because they are measured in such illogical locations far removed from the clusters of chimneys or stovepipes like airports or remote spots .. I wonder how much higher the readings of PM2.5 or 10 would be at next door locations of neighbors who use firewood ? Come to think of that.... Coal power plants are doing a far better job of cleaning up the air pound for pound as compared to firewood coming out of hollow shafts known as chimneys and stovepipes.. Actually, coal power plants employs huge vacuum cleaners with huge bags to trap PM2.5 and 10 while there is none found in chimneys and stovepipes.. I know that people need firewood to stay warm or to save money but where is the pollution controls.. Why should we let people off the hook with burning firewood and harming neighbors ? I think this is disrespectful not to mention irresponsible thing to continue doing so.. EPA is somewhat timidly encouraging people to switch to gas stoves from wood stoves.. EPA certified fireplaces or stoves are still substandard as compared to coal power plants.. I get useless answers from readers who are too quick to spit out what they think or feel about firewood.. I urge readers to stop and think about everything around the issues of firewood smoke before they answer here. Stop and think because every one of you including myself are paying through our noses for being too careless with firewood use... Please answer intelligently because I am not that stooopid!! I know what I am talking about , alright ? Now , clear out your nostrils and start enjoying the clean air free of firewood smoke especially that dreadful PM2.5 and 10 . OK DO KEY?

We already have advanced means of heating living spaces, working spaces...etc.. Yet millons of people on Earth are using firewood on a daily basis .. Clearly firewood smoke is a bad thing to inhale and to do so on a daily basis is obviously irresponsible not only to himself but to his negihbors who needlessly tolerate his daily use of firewood. Have people forgotten how to breath and more importantly enjoy the puritiy of normal ambient air that EPA and other organizations work so hard to achieve.. Why must we blow it away by stinking the air up with firewood smoke.. Often, it smells so awful and suspecting .. Where is the polltuion control devices for chimneys and stove pipes at all. Yes there is EPA certified fireplaces but they are not really that clean... Cant EPA do much more to control so much firewood smoke wafting all over? There is websites that shows where there is worst air pollutin that is caused by firewood smoke. I cannot list them , I guess. You can at least google about firewood smoke..

Our heatlh care costs are sprialing out of control, yet we only try to deal with dietary habits, exercise, among others while leaving out other potential major causes of our health cost issues like firewood, loose PCV hose connections (smog check stations), and pesticides for instance. I had asked questions about firewood here at Yahoo! answer sites recently and I received flames from readers everywhere so fierce that they seem to be willing to die for it... There is already solar technology that can give exactly same type of comfortable heat as firewood stoves can minus air polllution .. Firewood smoke is by far the worst air pollutant known around worse than even coal fired powerplants and cigarette smoking. Pesticides is a very nasty air pollutant as well. I hereby welcome all the flames I can get and I am longing for support as well. We need to unite and combat the gross ignorance or malicious intent with using firewood for deliberative financial gains like helping hospitals and health care centers with cash flows!! Local communities are very keen about local hospitals and their abilities to keep as many rooms staffed as possible.. Firewood is a great prime agent for keeping sick patients coming into hospitals.. many peopel are bohtered by firewood smoke and are often unable to funciton normally as they develop respiratory and mental irritrations . Some neighbors use firewood everyday while others just occassionally.., yet the air resource boards view all as the same without any regard to the unfortunate neighbors having to tolerate daily firewood users.. There is so much injustice about firewood among other terrbile health threats that keep bombarding some of us on a daily basisi.. The experts and the authorities that deal with clean air need to understand that there is so much unfiarness about air pollutin controls... I urge you to join me to fight for our rights to breath normal ambient air and to stop nearby culprits from thinking that they can keep harming you without any consquences... They got to pay for it..

Our heatlh care costs are sprialing out of control, yet we only try to deal with dietary habits, exercise, among others while leaving out other potential major causes of our health cost issues like firewood, loose PCV hose connections (smog check stations), and pesticides for instance. I had asked questions about firewood here at Yahoo! answer sites recently and I received flames from readers everywhere so fierce that they seem to be willing to die for it... There is already solar technology that can give exactly same type of comfortable heat as firewood stoves can minus air polllution .. Firewood smoke is by far the worst air pollutant known around worse than even coal fired powerplants and cigarette smoking. Pesticides is a very nasty air pollutant as well. I hereby welcome all the flames I can get and I am longing for support as well. We need to unite and combat the gross ignorance or malicious intent with using firewood for deliberative financial gains like helping hospitals and health care centers with cash flows!! Local communities are very keen about local hospitals and their abilities to keep as many rooms staffed as possible.. Firewood is a great prime agent for keeping sick patients coming into hospitals.. many peopel are bohtered by firewood smoke and are often unable to funciton normally as they develop respiratory and mental irritrations . Some neighbors use firewood everyday while others just occassionally.., yet the air resource boards view all as the same without any regard to the unfortunate neighbors having to tolerate daily firewood users.. There is so much injustice about firewood among other terrbile health threats that keep bombarding some of us on a daily basisi.. The experts and the authorities that deal with clean air need to understand that there is so much unfiarness about air pollutin controls... I urge you to join me to fight for our rights to breath normal ambient air and to stop nearby culprits from thinking that they can keep harming you without any consquences... They got to pay for it..

If any of you do not like firewood smoke or anything like burning garbage or hate crime activities used by your neighbors against you , you can file an online complaint to the EPA... It is about time EPA start paying close attention to neighborhood activities that poison the air and harm neighbors targeted or not. Do not worry about whether EPA will do something or not which is STILL unlikely until enough of you in numbers ALREADY file complaints that EPA can no longer ignore .. Your local cops will not help you with that untili it is written in their books... We can make EPA and similar authorities see that there is real problems with air pollution in neighborhoods that warrants training local cops to understand better about what is really going on.. It is your civic duty to inform EPA about real threats from neighbors who fool around with air quality for whatever reasons but mostly hate activities ... My neighbor is using such activities against me for years but cops cannot help me because the fumes disspate too quickly for the cops to come to smell it. If you suspect similar activities that threaten your health and well being, I urge you to notify EPA .. Dont worry about the results... JUST NOTIFY EPA, the more you notify EPA they will bo coerced to do something ...

Firewood smoke is a very hazardous air pollutant.. It is so full of soot and particulates that go deep int the lungs ... We will always use firewood like oil, coal, what not... But what is the glaring difference between firwood and the rest is.... lack of pollution controls!! None whatsoever!!!! Yes, there is EPA approved fireplaces and wood stoves but the standards are too low as compared to other sources of polltuion. Firewood smoke is heaviest in soot and particu lates by hundreds or thousands of times over oil, natural gas and coal.. Coal powerplants are forced to spend billons and billons on polltuion control.. even to remove flyash similiar to those coming from firewood. I believe that EPA can require that some form of vaccuum cleaning be required to capture soot and particulates before they escapes into the air and end up lodged deep into lungs .. If this will mean addtional layers of maintenances on behalf of firewood users, so be it.. It is not our repsonsiblity to clean the air pollution coming from thier own chimeys and stove pipes.. It is theirs... It is long overdue for EPA to start improving on standards of fireplaces and woodstoves.. I dont think that older chimneys and woodstoves should be allowed to be ":grandfathered "at all. All users of firewood shoulld be mandated to reduce soot and particulates... by at least 99.9%!! like autombiiles and otehrs.. Look at those millons and millons of chimeys and stove pipes.. My God! still unregulated at all...

Maybe a cold hard fact that you have yet to know is many people doesnt like the smell of firewood smoke. This is the basic argument here.. I am one of them. They may have respiratory issues.. I was not bothered by firewood smoke when I was young.. I am sensitive to firewood smoke of lately . As matter of factly, EPA has already begun to address the issues on firewood smoke.. They are going too slow on this . I am trying to protect my right to breath normal ambient air . I am not as concerned about your questions as about mine.. I for one stand to fight for my right.. not anyone's. It is not a popular contest ... it is a democracy.. People, rise up and stand for your beliefs.. If you are bothered by firewood smoke, please answer here.. I need your support. Dont allow anyone intimiidate you away from standing up for your rights and more importantly to create new rights .. You can do it. I have a lot to share only if you come here to join me to fight for our right to breath normal ambient air. We cannot allow those using firewood to continue to foul the air we breath.. They have a responsiblity to keep the smoke from going into the air .It is their responsiblilty..We can unite togehter and enact new laws to force them to comply under new EPA mandates .. EPA needs your feedback. You can go to EPA . gov website to find out more about firewood smoke and its hazards.. They have a brochure that you can download . It is very interesting to read.

Do we have the right to breath normal ambient air free of firewood smoke coming from neighbors ?

It is usually ok while driving, even stopping at intersections most of the times, but it usually happens during city driving. I replaced anti freeze and thermostat fill it to level in the white tank with antifreeze and distilled water. What is so strange is that I drained old antifreeze which was less than I expected only half gallon or so. There must still be old antifreeze in the engine.. Looks like blockage or something. Water idiot light was on , but it went away with fresh antifreeze. The idiot light never came on every time the analog water gauge went to hot. The analog gauge acts like it lost its spring ...