seattle.politics

usenet@ (Paul Mitchum) wrote:

> Lobby Dosser < @ > wrote:
>
>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>> > @ wrote in
>> > news: @ :
> [..]
>> >> The problem being, obviously, there are more trees now than at the
>> >> time of Columbus.
>> >
>> > Some of can remember when Reagan trotted out that line - and
>> > howls
>> > of laughter that followed.
>>
>> Then some of us are suffering from memory loss. "that line" is not
>> what Reagan said.
>
> One thing he said was this: ""The American Petroleum Institute filed
> suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a
> scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted ... The
> suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not
> from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees." --
> Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in 1979
>
> And *that* drew a laugh. As it should.
>

Correct. And it turns out there is some truth to the statement.