History repeating....NAC.

[Michael Riebs]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at mindspring.com>

> >>As usual, clueless politicians think they know what's good for us!
> >
> > The jury's out.  There is significant statistical evidence linking
turbodiesels with childhood
> > asthma in Europe.

So, now we are full circle. Isn't that where George started this whole
thing - with Statistics?

> How do they differentiate turbodiesel emissions from
> regular diesel emissions? :-)

Simple: They just ask them for their origin! :-)

> [steps up onto the soap box]
>
> The US lawmakers go to great lengths to make sure that
> our automobiles run "clean." Yet here in the NE US,
> look at most any house away from a city and it burns
> "heating oil" in amounts per year roughly equal to a
> what a car consumes.

[Crowding Kent on said soapbox]

And what about all of our other household engines: lawn mowers (some of
which are {gulp} 2-stroke!), weed-whackers (which are ditto), snow-throwers,
chainsaws, hedge trimmers, etc., etc., etc.

If you add all of these into the equasion, they do much more harm than any
number of automobile engines. I think (if memory serves) that something like
86% of harmful emissions are produced by these "small household appliances".

[Leaving soapbox for Kent]

> I had a 250 gallon tank that,
> in a bad year, needed to be refilled after three weeks.
> It would take me 3-4 months to burn that much gas in
> my car.  And the oil burners are (at least in NH)
> unregulated, unrestricted, unemissioned. You can even
> find coal burners converted to burn oil for true
> inefficiency. But what politician is going to tell his
> voters that, if they don't upgrade their home heating
> system, they can't live there anymore?
>
> [steps off the soap box]

[Leaping onto soapbox]

Yeah! What he said!

[sheepishly leaving soapbox]

Michael Riebs
Grand Rapids, MI
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'98 A6QA

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