Give up gas golf carts, wood stoves

Give

up gas golf carts, wood stoves

I just read in [The

Peachtree Citizen Review, Aug. 20] that one of the major

pharmacies in Peachtree City is going to move into a new

location so it can provide drive-through service. With

its drive-through service it will also provide more air

pollution.

There has

been a lot of comments made recently about the bad air in

the Atlanta area, and drive-throughs are a major

contributor. Just take a look at a small town like PTC,

nestled in the woods, and see how many cars are sitting

with their engines running.

Will doing

away with drive-throughs eliminate air pollution? No, but

it would help. Would doing away with gas golf carts on

the very enclosed cart paths eliminate air pollution? No,

but it would help.

There was

supposed to be a moratorium on gas carts in PTC a few

year ago; however, there are more gas carts now then

ever. I even saw one being used for golf on the course in

PTC.

Now for the

one that's going to get me a lot of hate mail:

Wood-burning fireplaces.

Everybody

loves them. They are like kittens and puppies, but they

do pollute. If you ever run on the cart paths in the

winter for health reasons, you may have come home with a

headache from the polluted air that is caused from the

large volume of burning wood in a confined area.

The way I

see it is, we have two choices. We give up some of our

creature comforts, or we regress backwards into more

polluted air. Clean air is made with a lot of little

steps.

Lou

DeFranco

Peachtree City

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