| Is it possible to pick up all the old junky cars in | | | | not what it use to be. Many in the timber business |
| backyards across America and recycle them? Car we | | | | are out of work and have equipment sitting idle, big |
| use these materials to make new cars? Many believe | | | | logging trucks; why not recycle some of this old |
| this is possible. Argonne Labs in Illinois has discovered | | | | junk.The guy I met had to go and I never got his |
| was to use the foam behind dashboards and recycle | | | | name, but his idea is duly registered here in this |
| it. Other studies are finding ways to re-use nearly | | | | article, who ever he is?In this country we have Salt |
| every part of the car. Can it be possible to clean up | | | | Mines, Uranium Mines, Zinc, Lead, Molybdenum, Iron |
| America and remove all the rust buckets that are | | | | Ore, Copper, Silver, Gold, Aluminum, etc. We are |
| decaying, cars that will never be used for anything | | | | making it tough on mines to operate in this country |
| again; never to be restored?Met an interesting man | | | | and we are losing our industrial capacity to other |
| the other day in a coffee shop. He was in the building | | | | nations, which further offsets our trade deficits. We |
| materials business and traveled quite a bit and | | | | should be increasing our mining efforts and exporting |
| needed a Frappachino; hot day. He was telling me his | | | | raw materials not importing them. We also ought to |
| son is in college in Washington State and he could not | | | | mine some of our civilizations waste while we are at |
| believe all the farmers and folks who had old cars | | | | it. Some of what we ought to be mining is old |
| rusting away. His idea is that someone who was | | | | computers, refuse and disposed of automobiles. Gosh |
| industrious ought to get a huge flat bed truck offer | | | | you drive through the South and every Jerry |
| the land owner to pick up this old debris by the | | | | Springer future guest star has five cars sitting out |
| pound, as they pick it up weigh it and then cut the | | | | front with the high grass camouflaging them. |
| guy a check and everyone is happy.One has to | | | | Europeans have an interesting idea; .How about all |
| applaud such rational thinking and simplicity; a good | | | | those tires? We should be mining those too. We |
| business for someone as well. Now since being | | | | should be finding ways to mine better and when we |
| familiar with the area in Washington he was | | | | can figure out ways to re-use and mine old vehicles, |
| describing; why not use some of those old logging | | | | which is the best for all concerned. We must keep |
| trucks which have the loader right behind the cab of | | | | our mines running, it employs lots of people and |
| the truck and then get a large tractor trailer dump | | | | provides local raw materials, thus saving the expense |
| truck bed and just do it? After all the trucks are not | | | | of overseas shipping and if we are careful to mitigate |
| being used and for sale everywhere because logging | | | | the issues of environment along with the need for |
| from Aberdene going west towards Montana and | | | | efficiencies, we should be able to slow the flow of |
| South to California or North to Port Angeles is really | | | | the growing deficit. |