More thoughts regarding trees. It seems that for Christmas decorations, we are faced with the same problem we face at the grocery store -- paper or plastic? Paper is made from a renewable source, trees. Plastics from which most plastic grocery (I said, "most," Peaboy ;-)) bags are created, are petroleum-based. Same goes for Christmas trees. If you get the paper bags or the real Christmas trees, you face getting yelled at by the tree-huggers for killing trees. However, if you chose plastic, you get yelled at by the tree-huggers for using petroleum-based plastics, which do not break down so easily in our environment and because oil is non-renewable in addition to it keeps the US messing around in the middle east. What's a person who wants to do the right thing, to do? Get bashed, or get bashed? 
