Article 3563 of alt.politics.clinton:
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Date: Friday, 14 Aug 1992 20:16:39 CDT
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                  Senator Al Gore at Evergreen

     Thank you very much, and I'm very pleased to be here at
Evergreen.  You guys are really cleaning up this year in more ways
than one.
     You mentioned that both tickets have come here to Evergreen.
You know it's true, not long ago George Bush came right here to
this very spot right in front of this truck to talk about Evergreen
as an environmental and economic success story.  I wanted to come
back here to give you what Paul Harvey calls "the rest of the
story."
     George Bush and Dan Quayle trying to use oil re-refining as a
photo opportunity is like Bonnie and Clyde going back to the scene
of the crime wanting a free toaster the next day.
     Let me give you the facts.  This industry, this company is the
exception, not the rule, because Bush and Quayle have made it
impossible in most of the country for environmentally clean
companies like this one to survive.  What this company does is
extraordinary.  It takes dirty oil, contaminated with lots of lead
and cadmium and benzene and other poisonous substances that hurt
human health and pollute the environment and they re-refine this
oil in order to sell it again.  Their product, once they get done
with the process, is every bit as clean and good as the lubricating
oil that is made from what they call "virgin oil," and it requires
one-third the amount of energy to go through this process compared
to refining oil in the first place.  So everybody wins.
     But here's the rest of the story.  Ninety-five percent of the
used oil produced annually in this country is not re-refined even
though it helps the environment, even though it makes economic
sense, even though it creates good jobs.  Sixty percent of the used
oil is burned in hospitals and small generators in towns and cities
all across the country.  One and a half billion gallons a year, and
what happens when all that used oil is burned is that it puts lead
into the air because lead doesn't get burned up; it's atomized; it
just goes into the air and then we breathe it in, and our children
breathe it in.
     Louis Sullivan, the Bush/Quayle secretary responsible for
health, has said that lead is the number one environmental health
problem in this country.  Do you know what the number source of
airborne lead is?  The burning of used oil.  That's not all.  An
extra three-thousand cases of cancer every year come just from the
chrome that is put into the air from burning all of that used oil.
     Now I said sixty percent of it is burned.  Thirty-five percent
of it is dumped into landfills.  What does that do?  It creates
hazardous waste sites.  It creates superfund sites that cost money
and pollute the water.  In fact there are sixty-three superfund
sites around the United States today that are used oil dumping
sites, and Bush and Quayle are making sure that more of them are
created every single year.  Three of them are right here in
California; one of them down by Fresno; one of them in Richmond,
not far from here just north of San Francisco; and one of them at
Treasure Island at San Francisco.  Two billion dollars to the tax-
payers to clean up the hazardous waste sites created by dumping
this used oil into the environment.
     Now the American people, acting through the Congress, have
tried to do something about this.  A law was passed to require that
pollution like lead and the rest of that stuff be taken out of used
oil before it is burned and before it is dumped into landfills.
George Bush personally killed that requirement when he was running
the... you're right, that's the appropriate reaction... he was
running the Competitiveness Council before he handed it off to his
choice to be Vice-President, Dan Quayle, and, you all are really in
the spirit of this thing, you're really getting this message, but
it's a serious subject because our children are affected and
because jobs are affected.  And when Bush and Quayle personally
kiiled the requirement that this used oil be treated correctly a
lot of jobs were cost.
     They have presented a false choice between jobs and the
environment.  There are one-hundred good jobs right here at
Evergreen that have been created because California has done
something that Bush and Quayle prevented the entire nation from
doing.  California has provided some leadership in this respect.
     There are eight other states that have also provided some
leadership, but at the nation-wide level, at the federal level Bush
and Quayle have prevented the right thing from being done.
     Now I ask myself when I saw George Bush sitting here on this
stool bragging about this company, I knew, because I follow the
environment, that this industry is in the process of suing Bush and
Quayle to make them follow the law, and I tried to figure out why
in the world he would come here.  Really.  Of course Evergreen is
very courteous and very hospitable, and they are doing there best
to stay out of politics, but then it occurred to me that the real
problem is Bush and Quayle can't find a small business they've
helped.  But I'll tell you I thought it was a clear example of the
disarray of their campaign that they couldn't even find one that
they hadn'y hurt.  They had to come to one that was in the process
of suing them to try to obey the law.  I really thought that was
pretty interesting.
     So I thought I'd come back here today and give you the rest of
the story because the story here is not about politics, the story
here is about a new direction for our country.  We can create more
good jobs like the ones created here at Evergreen if we have new
leadership in the United States of America.
     Do you want four more years of a phoney environmental
presidency?  Or do want a real environmental presidency?
     Do you want four more years of a "read my lips" recession?  Or
do you want to get our economy moving forward again.
     Do you believe that it is time for Bush and Quayle to go?
     What time is it?
     What time is it?
     One more time, what time is it?
     I appreciate it ladies and gentlemen, and thank you very much.