Hum 111 Week 7 Assignment

To whom it may concern,

I write this letter to your news station in hopes that this will bring to light a problem in our community that most residents don’t know about, but that quite a few suffer from and don’t even know it. The slow leak of gas through the old pipes in most of the houses in our community that is causing illness in the residents. I hope that in reading this letter you will consider bringing this situation to the eyes of the public so that we can all get better and live safer.

During my research of an illness that I thought I only suffered from I found out that people that I interacted with everyday were suffering from the same symptoms that I was. I started suffering from gastrointestinal problems as soon as I moved into my new house. The one thing that this house has that no other of my previous homes had was a gas line. I was used to paying high electric bills for my dryer, water heater, and home heating. After a couple of my friends had heard what I was suffering from they told me they too had the same symptoms. We did a little digging and with my background in construction we found the only common link between us all was that our homes had gas lines and that they are all older homes from when codes were more relaxed and people just went by someone’s word that something was done right.

When I started digging for information I made sure that I had well written questions to ask and credible sources to find the information from. The source with the most information was a web site called gas-leak.org, which had most of the information I used to figure out what was causing our shared symptoms. After doing some research on this site along with phone calls to the local gas company I was told that the only thing they could do was refer me to a plumber that could come look at my home and then charge me to fix the problem. The gas company is only responsible for checking the lines when the initial hook-up is made. From then on it is the...