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Just finished mowing the back yard, but what do I smell? Not the fresh lawn clippings, or succulents on the patio in bloom. No. I am inundated with the fresh aroma of oil residue. I must be living in mosquito hell. I've watched the pest abatement trucks come by with their oil and chemical mixtures to stifle life out of insects. In this town the city does the same for people by smearing heavy doses of oil and chemicals onto neighborhood streets. 

What is the point of any citizen trying to do anything about the pollution levels in this town if government is going to just give a bunch of money to their cronies for toxins to lay out on all the streets? There are other sealers on the market  to  look into  that are not  made from oil, and far less toxic. And given the rising costs of oil, asphalt itself might be rejoining the dinosaur as a fossil of the past, because we won't be able to afford this road material for too much longer.

Maybe if oil hits a high enough level all those wild horses the feds want to euthanize will come back into vogue as our means of local transportation.