Recharging batteries

[C Moore]

We have been using rechargeable batteries for all of our remote controllers and anything else that takes a AA-AAA battery. Does anybody know the real scoop regarding savings, green energy, etc.etc. ? I guess what I am asking is:
After say 10 years of using rechargeables, have I made the world a better place, or would I have been a "better" citizen if I had used normal batteries and followed my state recycling laws?
Thank You

[Cliff Schecht]

By not throwing out alkaline batteries, your doing the world a much bigger favor. I don't care about the cost saving benefits of rechargeable batteries as much as I just enjoy the convenience of not having to swap out batteries all of the time. The world probably won't notice either way though, humans have already done far more damage in other ways (like the factories used to make these batteries).

[M Fowler]

We have a long ways to go to get the consumers online wth green but at least we started on large factories not poluting lakes, rivers, ponds, sloughs and other waterways. As well as, reduction in air polution.

In my area the farm fields are poluted with overgrown wind mills my home town area never looked so bad and the local wind tower building company has been struggling loosing a large GE contract and slowed production. There is a payoff for going green

North Dakota has huge oil reserve not tapped since I was a kid but you should see it now the rigs are going. The huge lignite coal sites still going after all these years,

[Structo]

The shale oil right?

Are they actually allowing them to drill there now?

If so it's about time.

I have often thought that the reason we don't allow a lot of drilling in the USA is not only for environmental reasons but so we save the oil for a rainy day.
In other words, we'll use everybody else's oil up first before we start using what is under our soil.