Rich Garling’s Blog

Went to Philadelphia last summer, posted these thoughts on my campaign blog…

We took a trip to

Philadelphia this last weekend. Visited Gettysburg,

Lancaster, and Constitution Hall and saw where the Declaration of Independence was signed. You could imagine how heady a moment that must have been to know that you were putting your life and everything you had worked for on the line by signing that document. These were very brave men who were willing to do what was right in spite of the possible adversity they may face. They were honestly living the change they wished to see at that moment.

While I will not compare myself to those great people, I do believe, as they did, that we all should live the change we wish to see in the world. Otherwise it is nothing but mere talk. I firmly believe in doing what I can to keep our air, water and land clean. As such I recycle all that I can, I use very little water since we’re dependent on well water, and I drive a hybrid car. We drove that car to

Philadelphia and back. We averaged 41 mpg. If we had used my girlfriend’s car we would have gotten around 28 mpg on the highway. While locally I average 46 mpg, we only took a hit of 5 mpg using the hybrid. The State, the nation, needs to encourage more usage of these types of vehicles and each level of government needs to use these for their non-emergency vehicles. The money we could save because we cut back on the amount of gas being consumed would be an excellent start to becoming oil free and saving this planet. The money saved could be used to help with funding education, our infrastructure and other important services we expect from our government. 

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