Pollution control begins at home

It seems Mayor Craig Johnson is at it again. He wants his staff to investigate putting into law no idling zones in Elk Grove Village. But during the recent Tour of Elk Grove bike race all I saw while walking around the event were the police sitting in their idling cars for hours on end with the air-conditioning running.

You would think that if Craig was serious about this unnecessary law that he would have told the police to start setting examples to the many people who attended this event. Craig was the one who personally started the debate a few years ago on changing the law to allow fire pits in backyards. Was that because he bought a new home that backed to a wooded creek and how nice it would be to have a fire pit back there so lets change the law?

I for one am glad that the law was change but in the article dated July 17, 2008 Craig states how much pollution is discharged by an idling car and how much gas is wasted yet it seems he doesn't care how much pollution is being discharged by his backyard fire pit.

Craig, I have to ask you are you for pollution or against pollution? It seems under your tenure as mayor all you to want to do is create more and more laws. Is this the way that you are increasing revenue for the village? More laws, more law breakers, more revenue.

Bill Fischer

Elk Grove Village