The Pontiac Daily Leader caught up with Vietnam War veteran Lane Anderson as he and other members of Veterans for Peace ride bicycles down old Route 66 from Chicago to St. Louis to attend an anti-war convention.
Anderson is an environmentalist — not because he’s a treehugger, but so America will use less oil and be less dependent on Middle Eastern countries that are support terrorism.
“It’s a demonstration of individual choice,” he said of his ride, which brought him into Pontiac about noon Wednesday. “Every individual, on a daily basis, makes choices that could get us out of the Middle East. Among the recommendations on the card are drinking tap water, driving slower, walking and biking whenever possible, and using energy-efficient lighting. […]
Anderson cites a variety of statistics. One example is to drink tap water, which would annually save 17 million barrels of oil that would otherwise be used to make plastic bottles, according to an environmental research group. He also promotes locally grown food, saying the average American uses more oil via the food he eats than he burns in his car.
The group should be in St. Louis by next weekend.
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