[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] okay Carol so air quality
[speaker001:] yeah is it I know in here uh downtown Dallas it's you I mean you drive by and you can just you can see it but then again I was originally was from California and uh there is a big difference between Texas and California
[speaker002:] uh-huh surely
[speaker001:] and uh 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 there's
[speaker002:] you mean they don't have the uh the smog alerts
[speaker001:] no not in not in Texas not well not in Dallas that is
[speaker002:] right I I yeah I spent a summer in in in Tyler
[speaker001:] so I know
[speaker002:] just east of Dallas there
[speaker001:] yeah we're going there tomorrow uh-huh we're packing and getting ready to go to
[speaker002:] oh really yeah actually I'm a California born person
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I was born in LA so I know what you're talking about in LA it's pretty bad
[speaker001:] yeah oh okay yeah you do then
[speaker002:] um the worst city in the in the world is actually uh Mexico City
[speaker001:] is it really I would not imagine that
[speaker002:] yes the worst one for smog is Mexico City
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] the most polluted city in the world
[speaker001:] huh you learn something every day
[speaker002:] is that crazy yeah I know that they've they're looking at uh um you know uh you know better running automobiles
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I've seen that
[speaker002:] um some things they do one one one one of them is they're using corn in fuel
[speaker001:] huh I huh-uh
[speaker002:] you ever heard of that yeah Methanol
[speaker001:] huh no
[speaker002:] yeah well that's big up here because of the they grow a lot of corn
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] yeah that's one thing that they do and at at that it's pretty easy to do and the uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] unfortunately it still contributes to global warming cause you have to wipe you know wipe out forest to grow corn and things like that it doesn't make sense
[speaker001:] yeah that's true
[speaker002:] uh but it's you know one of the most uh productive crop in the world is corn
[speaker001:] right 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 and all that it's interesting they're they're looking at at there's some work being done on uh automobiles that are electric powered
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh they're looking at where you have a battery operated car basically but it has a a engine in the back that charges it so the engine kicks on when the batteries need power and it turns off
[speaker001:] uh-huh 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 energy any energy
[speaker001:] huh that is good
[speaker002:] unlike a car where it's running
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] electric car it's on demand I mean it's either on or off basically
[speaker001:] yeah huh
[speaker002:] you don't have to shift so you cars become very simple all of a sudden too
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] very interesting
[speaker001:] that would be nice I think I saw that on TV one time they maybe it was CNN where they were demonstrating that or something similar to that
[speaker002:] yeah there's a there's a race in Australia with solar powered cars
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and Ford and General Motors and all those compete
[speaker001:] but what what what I think that was a setback a a setback that they I don't know they went I don't know how many miles an hour I think like twenty
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] was was that something maybe it was I don't know
[speaker002:] yeah GM uh Chrysler announced that they're going to they're well they actually have an electric minivan
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] yeah their their Caravan
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] but it costs uh fifty thousand dollars right now
[speaker001:] yeah and they're they're very expensive too I was gonna
[speaker002:] to operate yeah but you know people are buying them you know whose buying them the power company 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 it's top speed is something like eighty miles an hour so it's a good good vehicle
[speaker001:] yeah yeah hum well I'll tell you sometimes it's it's pretty bad here today like today I think it was pretty bad I don't know if it was if it's just uh allergies or what but
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] some days it's really it's very nice here downtown and other days it's just really bad so I don't know so what what kind of things did you experience in LA when you were there or can you remember were you there at a
[speaker002:] oh I wasn't there too long ago um
[speaker001:] cause I haven't been there probably
[speaker002:] well you know you going over the hills you know coming into the valley you can see that horrible horrible brown haze
[speaker001:] yeah well we were there when they had a