On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I'm sure it was minor for you -- you don't live there. > > > There have been environmental cleanup and remediation projects within a > few miles of my house a lot bigger than this, at the end of the pipeline > from Texas to Georgia. We had a fuel tank explode. Heck, there was a dry > cleaning plant in Chamblee that cost hundreds of thousands to clean up, and > many months. > > " To reclaim the 1997<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997&usg=ALkJrhih9u93NypKN16kAnW-jKTabFIc8Q>had been spent 57 billion pounds<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lira&usg=ALkJrhggRzKPOUyVGl9xOqddTR-0cKSfZw> [5]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroldragon&usg=ALkJrhh-7DDB3ayGjv3GycCKup9WQbCSHg#cite_note-conto-4>supported by the Lombardy Region<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regione_Lombardia&usg=ALkJrhgECJ_RsR9mgWXg2ZnID-bEtwP5QQ>and the State<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stato&usg=ALkJrhinI8in1ofgFt3FWrdECXeG3C7JHw>(in 2004 it will spend 41 million euros [10]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroldragon&usg=ALkJrhh-7DDB3ayGjv3GycCKup9WQbCSHg#cite_note-asso-9>)." (from the Italian Wiki). I think the translation was bad and 57 billion *pounds *should have been *lira*. The 41 million Euros is correctly translated. Hardly a broken fuel tank in a corner gas station. Where do you get those comparisons?
