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Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager Ian Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Edifor Actually there is more than one bad intersection in Oakville â€" Speers and Cross, Trafalgar and Reynolds, Church and Reynolds, Robinson and Navy are just a few examples. The reason is a lack of visibility when you get down at the intersections. Some of those intersections have bushes and you can‘t see anything when you get up to them. J I think the Kerr Street and Speers Road crossing is a bad one for lights before seven in the morning and it is very congested going east and west anyâ€" time after rush hour. J I think the worst intersection is Cross Avenue and Trafalgar. It is very wide. I ride my bike a lot and I always find I can never make it across without a car honking at me everytime when I am doing nothing wrong. It is too wide. It is three lanes wide in the thinnest spot and it is very busy and the stop lights there seem to take forever. Councillors are quick to point up what a caring community we have and as former head of the Oakville United Way, Mayor Ann Mulvale knows the value of volunteers and community groups in helping the less fortunate in this community. Under this new scheme, groups like the Rotary Club of Oakville, which runs the annual Lobsterfest as its biggest fundraiser of the year, would have to ante up cash to pay the town when those monies could go to community programs supported by the Club. We‘re in support of councillor Kathy Graham who says the idea of lost revenue is an accounting procedure that‘s more smoke and mirrors than substance. And here‘s the topper. The town has a policy that allows for up to three staff functions to be held at local facilities rent free such as the firefighters‘ children‘s Christmas to be held at the Oakville Arena in December. The community services committee waived the fees for that event last week. Is the work of other community groups no less valuable? to charge rental fees for use of townâ€"owned facilities for nonâ€" profit service clubs.Through a convoluted accounting process, the mandarins at town hall have said the town lost $12,000 in rental fees last year due to the current practice of waiving rental fees for community groups. The whole issue is a red herring. We find it curious that parks and recreation department director Bob Perkins can say the town lost revenue. In fact, if these groups hadn‘t used these facilities, they would have been dark and empty and it‘s quite a stretch to conclude that there would be a flocking to town facilities to fill in the times now taken by community groups. Tomorrow night Oakville Town Council will look at a proposal What is the worst Oakville intersection and why? EDITORIAL False economy 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 \QUESTION OF THE WEEK What, if anything, should be done to reduce violence on television and in the movies? Give us your opinion on this topic by calling 845â€"5585, box 5012 . A sampling of the best answers will be published in the next Weekend edition of the Oakville Beaver. All callers are allowed 45 seconds to respond and must provide their name, address and phone number for verification. Josh Routhier Ed Williams Jeff Morris "Nine bucks?" the old guy wailed as he fumbled for his wallet. "Kid, I guess you know that if Detroit ever loses control of the pill, you‘ll be out of a job." "Pill?" I asked. The old guy went on to explain quite matterâ€" ofâ€"factly how an inventor in Ohio â€" or maybe it was Wyoming â€" had come up with a magical chemical capsule. This pill was dirt cheap and if you threw it into a gallon of water â€" hey, presto! â€" you had a fuel that your car could burn cleaner and more efficiently than gasoâ€" line. "But of course General Motors got wind of the Pill," the old guy told me. "They gave the inventor millions for the patent rights on his invenâ€" tion and then they buried it. Made the guy sign a pledge that he would never speak about his pill to anybody... especially the press." * That was pretty much the gist of the Tale of the Magic Pill. Sometimes, it was Ford that paid the inventor off. remember the very first I time I ran into the Tale of the Magic Pill. I was a spindly teenager working at my spare time job, pumping gas at a Fina station on the outskirts of a little town called Nobleton, Ontario. It was a lazy, dozy August afternoon and I was fillâ€" ing the tank of a rusty Ford pickup. The old guy at the wheel was scowling and grumâ€" bling at every ‘ding‘ of the gas pump. Ottawa could hold the solution to automobile fuel pollution ul ) At least, the story used to be hogwash. A visitor to the Alternative Transportation Exposition held recently in Burbank, California might be forgiven for wondering if it hadn‘t finally come true. At the Exposition, visitors could sit in a Chevrolet Lumina that runs on a fuel distilled from garbage, beer sludge, and cheese whey. Does it work okay? ‘Well, the owner â€" Ciny Nasenjager â€" of the California Renewable Fuels Council, says she‘s been driving the Chevy using nothing but the compostâ€" ed fuel for over a year. It was utter hogwash, but it was popular hogwash. It made a good story... especially for Redsâ€"underâ€"theâ€"bed, Martiansâ€" inâ€"theâ€"Whiteâ€"House conspiracy buffs who seemed a lot more prevalent back in the Paranoid Fifties. Occasionally, it was the big oil companies themselves. The details varied from narrator to narrator, but the nub of the story was the same; somewhere out there was a magic potion that could turn water into autoâ€" mobile fuel and save us all bilâ€" lions of dollars a year â€" but to protect their profits â€" dirty old Big Business made damn sure it never came on the market. Just a couple of car lengths Ford Motor â€"Company, Chrysler Corporation, and General Motors. They were in attendance to show off their prototype electrical vehicles, most of which are slated to be on the highways within the next few years. So much for the Magic Pill Conspiracy Theory. Which will be exciting news for the nation‘s capital. Ottawa could become the Detroit of the North. Cars that run on electrons, garbage, beer sludge, soybeans, cheese whey... "A forklift operator told me ‘We want it in all our vehicles. It smells reeeeal good‘," says Schumacher. The best thing about the Alternative Transportation Exposition? Well, guess who the three biggest sponsors were? At the rate automotive engiâ€" neering is hopscotching into the future, it won‘t be long before cars are running on nothing more than hot air. a mixture of soybeans and diesel oil. He says the fuel burns cleaner, is much easier on the engine, and stretches mileage by as much as 25%. Best of all is the smell. Schumacher‘s van exhaust smells like... french fries. The fuel is a big hit at St. Louis airâ€" port where it‘s used in all the runway vehicles. from Cindy‘s display was a van owned by Leon Schumacher, an agricultural engineer at the University of Missouriâ€" Columbia. Leon‘s buggy burns