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would otherwise end up in the landfill. So
manufacturing and distribution costs com-
pared to those of conventional diesel, derived
from fossil fuel pumped from thousands of
feet below the ground in the Middle East or
Venezuela or wherever, shipped around the
world and heavily processed, is also ridicu-
lous. Biodiesel is not problem-free, and it
might not be the end all answer to our de-
pendence on fossil fuels, but it’s not a bad al-
ternative, and I applaud those folks with the
biodiesel bumper stickers.
Ben Nielsen
Corvallis
THE KINGDOM OF KNIGHT
My hope was that the R-G story on Phil
Knight’s $100 million pledge would praise
the Knights for donating that sum to the fi-
nancial aid office at the UO for student schol-
arships. The $100 million could be used to es-
tablish the “Oregon Education Legacy Fund”
to build, maintain and expand Eugene and/or
statewide academic programs, as well as to
hire more professional staff. Or maybe even
that sum could be used to support Oregon’s
foster children, health research and health
care, people with disabilities, local nonprofit
organizations, the homeless, etc.
But, what was I thinking? Of course the
Knights are able to spend their own money
any way they want.
Now, there will soon be the Knight Daily
Newspaper, the Knight Basketball Arena, the
City of Knight and of course the State of
Knight.
Patricia M. Dawson
Eugene
SUSTAIN THIS
Although I agree with the sentiments of
those who like to use the 21st century buzz-
word “sustainability,” I ask them all: Get a
thesaurus, people! Come up a few new words
or phrases, please! JEEzuz ...
Glenn Leonard
Eugene
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CONNECT THE DOTS
Tons of NEW ARRIVALS!
Pete Sorenson framed the problem before
Lane County — regarding looming cuts in
federal funding for counties with federal
acreage vs. increased timber cutting — well
in his recent R-G op-ed piece. On one hand,
egregious, unacceptable cuts in county serv-
ices; on the other, increased logging. If log-
ging were increased to provide timber re-
ceipts that we did historically, it would be to-
tally unsustainable, plus it would also proba-
bly include cutting old growth. Which way
do we go? Neither way!
We need to think outside the box, connect
the dots and create a new paradigm. The nur-
turing, growth and protection of living trees
has considerable value in these times of
global warming — trees are one of the most
effective atmosphere scrubbers that exist.
According to a recent study by the UN
Committee on Climate Change, one acre of
old growth can sequester 1,000 tons of car-
bon emissions per month, compared to 100
tons by second growth plantation forests. All
plant life absorbs carbon dioxide, but trees
are the champs.
I propose the Carbon Reduction
Investment Initiative, stating that the
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