[speaker001:] Okay [children].
[speaker002:] Okay Carol. So, air quality.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Is it, [NOISE] [sounds like water running and she is doing dishes] I know in here, uh, downtown Dallas, it's, you, I mean you drive by and you can just, you can see it.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] But, then again [throat clearing] I originally was from California and, uh, there is a big difference between Texas and California. And, uh
[speaker002:] Surely.
[speaker001:] they'd have their smog alerts and where you'd have to stay indoors for so many hours with an air conditioner. And, of course, they don't have that here in Texas so, [breathing] there's...
[speaker002:] You mean they don't have the, uh, the smog alerts?
[speaker001:] No, not in, not in Te-, well not in Dallas, that is.
[speaker002:] Right. I, I,
[speaker001:] [throat clearing].
[speaker002:] yeah, I spent a summer i-, i-, in Tyler so I know, just east of Dallas there.
[speaker001:] Yeah. We're going there tomorrow.
[speaker002:] Oh, really [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Uh-huh [LAUGHTER]. We're
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] packing and getting ready to go to.
[speaker002:] Actually, I'm a California born person.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I was born in L A so I know what you're talking about. In L A, it's pretty bad.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, you do then.
[speaker002:] [breathing] Uh, the worst city in the, in the world is actually, uh, Mexico City.
[speaker001:] Is it really?
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] I would not imagine that.
[speaker002:] The worst one for smog is Mexico City.
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] The most polluted city in the world [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Huh. You learn
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] something every day.
[speaker002:] Yeah. I know that they've, they're looking at, uh, uh, you know, uh, you know, better running automobiles.
[speaker001:] [hum] Uh-huh. Yeah, I've seen that.
[speaker002:] Uh, some things they do, w-, w-, one of them is they're using corn in fuel.
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] You ever heard of that?
[speaker001:] Huh-uh.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Methanol?
[speaker001:] Huh. No [squeak].
[speaker002:] Yeah. Well that's big up here because of the, they grow a lot of corn [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] [swallowing] Uh, that's one thing that they do. At that, it's pretty easy to do.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And the, uh, unfortunately, it still contributes to global warming cause, you have to, you know, wipe out forests to grow corn and things like that.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's true.
[speaker002:] It doesn't make sense. Uh, [sigh] but it's, you know, one of the most, uh, productive crop in the world
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] is corn.
[speaker001:] Huh. And, of course, I doubt if there's any, you can buy regular anymore. You buy unleaded. Right?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Huh.
[speaker002:] Drive cars with catalytic converters,
[speaker001:] [throat clearing].
[speaker002:] and all that. It's interesting. They're, they're looking at, there's some work being done on, uh, automobiles that are electrical powered [child talking] [talking].
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And, uh,
[speaker001:] [static].
[speaker002:] they're looking at where you have a battery operated car basically, but it has a, a engine in the back
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] that charges it. So the engine kicks on when the batteries need power and it turns off.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Interesting thing about gas is when, I mean, about battery powered cars is when you're at a stop light, you're not using any [mispronounced] any energy [child talking] [talking].
[speaker001:] Huh [static]. That is good.
[speaker002:] Unlike a car where it's running.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] A electric car it's on demand. I mean it's either on or off.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Basically.
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] You don't have to shift [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] So you, cars become very simple all
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] of a sudden too.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Very interesting.
[speaker001:] That would be [LAUGHTER] nice. I think I saw that on T V one time. They, maybe it was C N N where they were demonstrating that.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Or something similar to that.
[speaker002:] There's, there's a race in Australia with solar powered cars.
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] And Ford and General Motors and all those compete.
[speaker001:] But what, w-, w-, I think that was a, a, a setback. That they, I don't know, they went, I don't know, how many miles an hour. I think like twen-, was that something * Seems to be an indep. slash unit
[speaker002:] Right. Yeah [very faint].
[speaker001:] maybe it was. * See note above I don't know.
[speaker002:] G M, uh, Chrysler announced that they're going to, they're, well they actually have an electric minivan.
[speaker001:] Huh? * Should have a slash
[speaker002:] Yeah. Their, their Caravan.
[speaker001:] Huh. * See note above
[speaker002:] But it costs, uh, fifty thousand dollars [LAUGHTER] right now.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah, and they're, they're very expensive too..
[speaker002:] [child talking] To operate, yeah. But, you know, people are buying them. You know whose buying them? *"whose" who's" The power company.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Free, you know, free for them.
[speaker001:] Well, yeah. Yeah.
[speaker002:] Kind of interesting so see.
[speaker001:] Well, it doesn't make sense. Because if they want people to convert, you know.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] They should make it worthwhile.
[speaker002:] Yeah [child]. It's top speed is something like eighty miles an hour. So it's
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] a good, good
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] vehicle.
[speaker001:] Um. Well I'll tell you.
[speaker002:] [child talking].
[speaker001:] Sometimes it's, it's pretty bad here. Like today I think it was pretty bad. I don't know if it was, if it's just, uh, the allergies or what but
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [talking].
[speaker001:] some days it's r-, very nice here downtown and other days it's just really bad, so, I don't know. So what, what kinds of things did you experience in L A when you were there? Or can you remember? Were you there at a?
[speaker002:] Oh, I wasn't there too long ago. Uh.
[speaker001:] Cause I haven't been there probably...
[speaker002:] Well, you know, yo-, going over the hills, you know, coming into the valley? [child talking].
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] You can see that horrible, horrible brown haze.
[speaker001:] Well, we were there when they had a [NOISE],