Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:13:15 -0800
Reply-To: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Propane Tanks, (NVC) politics NO!
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Now that I have been properly clued in to the intended meaning of some
of his post here is my reaction.
Can't we leave this political stuff out of our posts?
I have not read that much of the stuff regarding these regs but what I
have read clearly predates any possible link to the current regime
whatever it's other faults may be.
It seems that OPD devices were first forced on some tank manufactures
due to a class action court case in Marin, California, in 1994. Not
exactly Bush country, not exactly a tank manufacturer's conspiracy.
Liberal Northern California courts, maybe? Perhaps some tanks actually
did blow up? Maybe the devices are even a good idea? (Superior Court for
the State of California for the County of Marin, settlement order in
Case No. 157907)
It seems that the regulatory requirements for OPD to be fitted on new
DOT tanks began in Oct 1998 while pre-existing DOT tanks were allowed a
grace period to remain in use without retrofitment until Apr 2002. How
did Bush manage that? He wasn't sworn in until 2001 and some other guy
was Pres at the time the regs were issued.
If one is unable to avoid dragging politics into list posts perhaps
limit oneself to at minimum half truths.
My preference is for no politics on the list. I don't really need to
know what people here think of politicians, past or present. I really
don't need to read falsehoods, whatever part of the political spectrum
they may come from.
Mark
Pensioner wrote:
>
> Portable propane tanks are DOT tanks and require recertification. The Westy
> one is an ASME tank which does not require recertification, at least not
> yet. When your DOT tank is 12 years old, empty it and recycle it, the
> ninnies in our current regime require a new overfill protection device or
> OPD on all DOT tanks so the untrained masses don't continue to kill
> themselves in large numbers by overfilling the old tanks. It seems the
> piles of bodies littering the landscape became offensive to the tank
> manufacturers who lobbied the shrubbery to get the law passed, all in the
> name of safety and security as is the fashion these days. I have a local
> purveyor who fills my tank. The local purveyor near Kayenta AZ had no
> issues with a nicely kept 15yr old DOT tank. YMMV.