as i was surfing, i came across an article which talked about things your real estate person would not tell you. that article lead me to three other web pages which present information you may wish to access at some time or other. to wit:
the national sex offender registry, which made me go 'hmmm' after i saw that our teeny tiny little town currently has three offenders, then i saw there are two offenders living within a couple of blocks of my son's big town in new york, yet none within an area comprising many blocks around my son in seattle. hmmm, again. it appears that to be safe from predators you should live in a high-priced area.
but on to the next page -- the environmental protection agency's web site can tell you about pollution, watersheds, and the uv index.
and finally, and the one which really surprised me, was the pollution information site, curiously named, Scorecard. our sparsely populated county, in 2002, ranked as one of the diriest/worst 20% of all counties in the whole u.s. in terms of air releases. wha...?
the number one and number two offenders, releasing nearly exactly the same amount of pollution, are intalco aluminum and conocophillips refinery. following closely behind is bp cherry point refinery.
the really curious thing about the above statistic is that our u.s. senator sent a letter to the husband, answering his question about high gas prices in our state, which said that our gas prices are high because we aren't close to any refineries. again, wha...? and not only are our state gas prices high, but our tiny town has the highest of anywhere in the state!!! we locals feel this is because we are gouging the canadians when they come to visit, which by the way means we get gouged, too.
oh, but surely not. we aren't close to any refineries.
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