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“How many real farmers i are there in the county?” i asked Peggy Clark. “We have i play farmers in Rap- < pahannock County.” She maintained that quali- i fications for judging i farmers for inclusion into tax benefit programs need to be established.
Who’s going to decide j what is taught in schools about environmental controls, asked a member of the 1 audience. Opposition to offshore oil drilling had all driven to the meeting in cars that required oil. Does this mean that it’s all right to pollute the environment in Lousianna but not in < Virginia? he asked. 1
Fanning Baumgardner 1 relayed a story that he’d read 1 about an old trapper’s ' response to * a "drive 1 reformers ft? rb'&fl ltr&ppft^.'‘ “Reformers sit down,. find 1 what won’t hurt their lifestyle > and then they start reforming < like the devil.” i
The only answer to the problems raised by off-shore oil drilling is an alternative energy program, Murphy responded. “Solar power is our answer. . .Dependency on nuclear power and oil is a foolish thing.” If solar power is explored “then hopefully we won’t have to drill for oil off the coast of Virginia,” he said.
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