[Vwdiesel] EPA things

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/2012 9:17:38 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
toensing at wildblue.net writes:

Travis,  you make some very good points. I fully agree that our 
infrastructure is  terribly outdated. If we would spend our tax dollars on rebuilding 
our  infrastructure rather than on useless wars that DON'T make our country 
any  safer, we would have ended this recession/depression we are in. Also, I 
feel  it would be OK to expand our national debt, if necessary to rebuild 
our  infrastructure as posterity will benefit from a sound infrastructure that 
we  rebuild now. I am from Minn. & have driven several times over that 
I-35W  bridge that fell down. We should have a "Manhattan Project" to develop an 
 economical way to generate power from nuclear FUSION & an economical way  
to build cars that run on fuel cells powered by hydrogen & save what  fossil 
fuels we still have for posterity.
Bill Toensing, Nevada City,  CA



First, we're like 14 TRILLION in the hole.  I don't think  adding to that 
for whatever benefit, is going to pull us out of a  recession/depression.  
Try that on your home budget.
  Second, government jobs don't net gain enough to balance out.   They can 
provide incentive and motivation that gets other things rolling but too  
much is like some Amway people follow "Spend your way to prosperity".  Not  
many millionaires did it that way without a lot of "confidence."  ;-)
  That bridge fell down, not from lack of maintenance but from (can't  
remember the exact name) binding plates that were I believe ONE HALF as thick as 
 engineering required.  I now forget if they were mis-engineered or someone 
 read the print wrong and missed it in the inspection.  Just look at the  
findings and pictures. It's pretty obvious that 1" steel isn't enough to hold 
 the main supports together.  
  Nuclear fusion would be great but so far it only works in the  
engineering section of warp class Starfleet wessels.  Dumping money into it  might 
help but at current tech levels, it would probably just help fund more  
research labs with no working reactors.
    Loren