placed over 500 square miles in southeast kansas, northeast oklahoma, and southwest missouri on the national priorities list of the superfund list, including the city of treece. in total, cherokee county, kansas, where treece is located, has 115 square miles in the superfund program. now, last summer during a listening tour of this part of kansas, i saw firsthand how 100 men and women and children are living in absolute blight. they live day by day not knowing when -- and i mean when, not i if -- their homes will collapse into the earth, into the earth below into a giant sink hole. they remain there despite the loss of businesses and infrastructure because their homes have no market value and they cannot sell them to find -- or to fund a new home or even rent one. as parts of cherokee county have been on the superfund list for the last 26 years, the e.p.a. has been removed and replaced contaminated topsoil. and according to their stimulus press release, the e.p.a. will continue to remove lead-contaminated residential soil at more than 380 acres in baxter springs and treece. now, this probabl

kansas who have a lot of wind. they cannot wait to get wind energy. but in places in the southeast we have on oil and gas, but not much wind on shore. we do have wind offshore. that is what this does not break down between democrats and republicans. it breaks down by region. some places have a lot of coal, some have a lot of gas. nuclear is interesting because it can pretty much go anywhere if people allow the plants to be built. it is about one part of the country saying we have these resources and want everyone to use a because there will make money. then it would cost my taxpayers more to have to buy wind from north dakota when they have natural gas in their backyard. that is what the debate is about and it is always a very heated debate on energy. host: missouri, on at the independent line. caller: good morning, y'all. guest: y'all, i heard that. caller: a comment on our energy policy. we should set a policy to reduce it each year the amount of oil consumed because it is a great pollutant. i basically disagree with the government with respect to oil leases. we basically give th