Now days most people are aware of the harm certain things can do to the environment. There was a time we drained oil right on the ground or spread it on the driveway. .we don't do that anymore. We never recycled anything..we do now. The only thing that has changed is we are more educated. ...well most of us.
no , now they recycle the used oil into heating oil for oil heaters , which i cant stand the smell of and i am sure its bad for your health and the environment as well ,
likewise i cant stand the smell of burning cross ties and telephone poles either , i find all three nauseating .
its not just the QWB guy's , i can drive down the mountain to a place i nick named "smokey holler " cause all of them have smoke spewing out of their stacks like they are smoking hams at smithfield , so much so , that i am surprised that everyone of them hasn't burned their houses down or died from smoke inhalation .
back to the creosote , i cant prove it , but i am sure the modern treatment probably has more than just coal tar in it , like PCB oils , pesticides , herbicides , arsenic and heavy metals , cause i lived in a rail road town most of my life and i can tell you those things never rot and nothing will touch them , and i have seen the rail road crews riding up and down the tracks spraying pesticides , herbicides and god knows what other chemicals as well , so if they didn't have all that crap in them when they were laid down i am sure they were permeated with it when they were taken up .
if he was my next door neighbor , i don't know exactly what i would do , but it probably wouldn't be nice and he wouldn't enjoy it .
