Bob...your brillance staggers me.  You and joel have something here, and i
think you both deserve to be able to own two vanagons each under your
voucher plan.  Lawns and maintaining them are a HUGE source of pollution.
Not mowing them is a great way to improve the environment.  Your yard gives
off more oxygen and creates habitat for endangered species while the mowed
ones give off co2 (greenhouse effect), among all the other noxious gasses
and noises and pollution from toxic fertilizers, weed killers, pest killers
and other  neighbor-envy yard enhancers which wash off with the rain and
pollute ground water, streams, rivers, even entire bays and the ocean...not
to mention all the wasted time and anxiety mowing, weeding, trimming, etc
when you could be out camping in a westy or changing head gaskets or
something.

"Robert A. Alexander" wrote:

> Gee, I was under the impression that ozone is continually being formed
> via sunlight in the upper atmosphere.  Also thought that the 11-year
> sunspot cycle had more to do with the thinning of the ozone layer at the
> Poles of Mother Gaia that any other phenomenon?  Let's see, we are
> nearing the peak of sunspots (great news :^) for ham radio operators).
>
> Hey, ban lawn mowers & mowing grass.
>
> BOB