Loading ...When I was a kid, my father and grandfather burned coal for heat. Everybody burned coal. Even in NYC they burned coal. It was cheap. I didn’t see any real problems with it. Even when I went to self employment, in 1975 I had a huge pot belly stove in my work shop garage.
I burned cannel coal, big sized rocks they were like a small foot ball. Once the fire was lit and going, it burned nice and clean with a blue flames. Also there was a factory near by that made things with 3/4 thick plywood or chip board, barrels full of all the same sized pieces, or blanks. Coin operated bowling machines for bars I think.
We used to make practically everything in the factories nearby, you name it. Plenty of wealth creating work, rather than wealth absorbing jobs. I remember the winters were cold and the summers were hot. No global warming.
Strange, after they started restricting freon and other so called greenhouse gasses after 1970, EPA was created, now we have supposedly global warming. Mild winters and mild summers. Another thing I remember as a kid, a few nice clear running streams nearby. Frogs and tad poles etc.
Then they made a huge sewer district to avoid cesspools. And after a while all the streams dried up to a trickle. Evidently less water was going back into the ground. Lowered the water table? If it rains heavy, they get water.