The Daring Dufas wrote:

On 12/18/2013 7:38 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
"Pete C." wrote in
news:52b122a4$0$47940$862e30e2 @ngroups.net:


They used to market nat gas as "clean, safe, dependable", now it's
just "clean and dependable", do you think they dropped "safe" for
no reason?

More bull****. It's still marketed as safe:
http://www.citizensenergygroup.com/Energy.aspx

"safe and reliable ... clean-burning"


In Birmingham about 10 years ago a steam pipe from the steam plant
operated by Alabama Power ruptured and boiled a couple of people in
their parked car. The plant dates back to 1895 and Birmingham isn't
that old as most large cities go but there are very old pipes and wires
running under our streets that can fail at any time.

Basically, every source of energy we use is dangerous in some way or another

Some more so than others.

but are we
to crawl in bed and pull the covers over our heads? o_O

TDD