Jorge, "Save Some Green by Going Green"

10/03/07
Jorge, Save Some Green by Going Green

Americans drive every where. From home to work from work to the gym and the gym back home. So what can be done to reduce all this driving? A new study shows “the number of miles Americans drive has risen three times faster than the population”, this shows that on average Americans are driving farther and farther each year. The proposal to fix this carbon emissions problem is to build neighborhoods, that are intermixed. This meaning that within each neighborhood there be businesses, also the neighborhoods would have to be walk able. The federal government is giving a 300- billion dollar grant to encourage people to ride the public transportation, yet this sponsors people living farther away from home and taking the bus to work. There is people asking for this grant to instead promote people living closer to work.
To me it seems that this is a huge contrevarsy. If the federal government keeps pumping cash into transportation and other organizations to promote living green, then its simply pulling money out of the economy. Its taking from one section and giving to another. Yet in the end America is still simply digging itself in a bigger hole. Also walk able neighbor hoods, will simply increase the darkened alley’s and creepy parks, which simply spawn crime.
Some terms that I didn’t understand where.
Ardently- intensely devoted.

Roosevelt, M. “To go green, live closer to work”. LA times. September 21, 2007. Pg B1 & B7.