A Man of Action

Kurt Bullard has shown he is not just focused economic issues. Mark Rodriguez has adamantly said how focused he is on environmental issues, but what has he done to put words into action? As you know Kurt Bullard is the Vice-President of Nebraska Furniture Mart. What many voters don’t know is that Kurt Bullard takes helping the environment seriously. Nebraska Furniture Mart sends out hundreds of shipping trucks to all corners of Nebraska and beyond. Using standard diesel trucks would release huge amounts of pollution into Earth’s fragile atmosphere. To prevent further damages to the atmosphere, Kurt Bullard has mandated that all of his shipping trucks must be fueled by ethanol. This not only benefits Earth’s ozone layer, but is also a great profit for Nebraska farmers producing corn. Nebraska winters can and will get cold, very cold. Heating the vast Nebraska Furniture Mart building can be expensive and enviormentally unfriendly. However, Kurt Bullard has taken the initiative to install a geothermal heating system. This system harnesses natural heat from the Earth’s core. Even though the initial cost is steep, the permanent heating system paid for itself in five years. Producing vast amounts of furniture means the use of vast amounts of lumber. In order to reduce his company’s affect on deforestation across America, Kurt Bullard has produced a new line of furniture that uses old plastic milk bottles and other recycled plastic items. Recycling companies melt these plastic items down to mold a wood-like material. You may have seen this method being used at Walnut Creek Lake in Papillion. Dotting the trail are benches also made from recycled plastics. Drivers on Interstate 80 might have noticed several wind mills periodically along the drive. Many do not know this, but Kurt Bullard sponsored the building of these wind mills. The wind mills supply power to twenty-five surrounding farm families. Kurt Bullard is planning to spread this energy source with ten more wind mills ready for use in 2008. For as much talking as Mark Rodriguez has done about saving the environment; he has shown little action to back up his words. Kurt Bullard has consistently shown he is a man of action, not a man of empty words.