Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:16:28 -0500
Reply-To: anthony kimmons <akimmons@HOUSTON.RR.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: anthony kimmons <akimmons@HOUSTON.RR.COM>
Subject: Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
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ditto, Bulley!
...Seems strange to me that someone who owns a van that's perfect for
enjoying the
natural world would not want to spend a few bucks to help preserve it...oh
well...
-Tony
(new converter, and my van's not even being used right now!)
"G. Matthew Bulley" wrote:
> Kevin snidely writes:
>
> "With a comment like that I really hope you weigh up every trip you make
> to the store, around town etc...so as not to burn precious fossil fuels
> and pollute the air...not to mention your 2nd car should be a electric
> hybrid...is it???
>
> Am I to understand that Kevin is making light of the air you or your
> kids breathe.
>
> Maybe in his area of the country they don't have 80+ code orange ozone
> days a year. Maybe Kevin doesn't have kids who he wants to grow up
> without repository allergies, asthma, or bronchitis.
>
> Maybe Kevin doesn't know what it is like to go for a 3 mile run and feel
> like shit afterward because the air is crap.
>
> Whatever, Kevin.
>
> If you are trying to imply that being concerned about the environment we
> all share is trivial, I'll let you stew in your own pudding.
>
> I'll err on the side of caution, and so I'll spend an extra buck or two
> to take the train rather than drive. I'll replace that catalytic
> converter when it fails. I'll walk to the grocer, the doctor, the
> barber, and work at home rather than commuting.
>
> I wasn't asking for the moon; our Vanagons aren't the most efficient in
> the world but with a little technology, they can at least be clean. Just
> a little common decency for our fellow travelers.
>
> Whatever, Kevin, make snide comments and feel smug in your ozone world.
>
> Pax--
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Mount Olive, NC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> Of kevin obrien
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 6:50 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
>
> Hey G. Mathew....
>
> With a comment like that I really hope you weigh up
> every trip you make to the store, around town etc...so
> as not to burn precious fossil fuels and pollute the
> air...not to mention your 2nd car should be a electric
> hybrid...is it???
>
> --- "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
> wrote:
> > And then do the rest of us surface-dwellers a favor
> > and spend the $100
> > on a new catalytic converter.
> >
> > Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
> >
> > G. Matthew Bulley
> > Bulley-Hewlett
> > Marketing & Communications
> > Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
> > Phone: +1.919.658.1278
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List
> > [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> > Of Matthew Pollard
> > Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 6:19 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Revisiting the Catalytic Converter...
> >
> > oxygen sensor bad = running rich
> >
> > running rich = more work for cat to do
> >
> > more work for cat = getting hot & melting,
> > literally.
> >
> >
> > unplug your oxygen sensor and see how you run.
> > better? if so, then
> > replace the oxygen sensor. if not change then look
> > elsewhere.
> > matthew
>
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