Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:44 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Car climate tags for your vanagon
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> I do not advocate a car climate tag as a guilt
> free way to burn gasoline.
> Everyone would agree conservation is a better
> mode.
>
> [ Errr.... maybe that's why I missed
> EveryBus... yes that's it... ]
From The American Dream Coalition:
"Despite the success of controlling pollution at
the tailpipe, some people want to reduce
pollution by discouraging people from driving."
"In 1996, the Environmental Protection Agency
started a "transportation partners" program that
gave millions of dollars to anti-automobile
groups to try to reduce the amount of driving
Americans do."
If your read on
(http://www.americandreamcoalition.org/pollution/pollution.html)
You find information that is contrary to your
advocating using less gas or lowering speed
limits to lower consumption.
I already use less gas in my Vanagon, and did
before prices went up. Lately I have only been
putting in $20.00 at a time ( about 6 gallons).
I make that last a week.
How much gas does Al Gore burn???????
If driving a Vanagon makes you feel guilty-
PUUULEEEEEZE don't make me or the rest of us
guilty too!
All of this mad science is beginning to make me
mad enough to put a steam engine in my Westfalia.
You have to burn something unless you want to
turn the clock back to before man discovered
fire.
We all need energy to survive. If energy is
outlawed, then only volcanoes will have guns.
Robert
1982 Westfalia
--- Tom Myers <motmyers@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Just pondering a BurningMan trip this year [
> 5000 mile RT ] along with
> thinking about how i
>
> missed EveryBus again[ looked like fun! ]
>
> Sadly - with gas heading to $4.00 + and all the
> climate change talk - it
> just seems better not to go! :O(
>
> It appears that I will use 250 gallons of gas
> approx. [ 5000 miles/20mpg]
> to attend BM.
>
> With the theme of "Green Man" this year- my
> attendance could be an oxymoron.
>
> So I looked up Carbon offset purchasing for the
> vanagon and found this site
> [ there are several ]
>
>
http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/land/car_climate_tags
>
> A yearly pass for our vanagons is $29.95! A
> lifetime pass is $400
>
>
> I do not advocate a car climate tag as a guilt
> free way to burn gasoline.
> Everyone would agree conservation is a better
> mode.
>
> [ Errr.... maybe that's why I missed
> EveryBus... yes that's it... ]
>
> However - in lieu of the 42 mpg Subaru Diesel
> engine transplant and a desire
> to use my Westy for what it was made for....
> I figure the following may
> help a little:
>
> - A car climate pass
>
> - A functioning catalytic converter/ oxygen
> sensor . I cringe when a listee
> describes how to "empty out" a converter
> because it is a nuisance or how to
> install a bypass pipe. - lets face it - they
> help with pollution reduction
> [ not carbon]
>
> [They cost $99 /$55 from our vendors...] [
> that's less as a stereo upgrade,
> an iPod, SA grille upgrade, 15 inch alloys, a
> second battery or a Fiamma
> awning....]
>
>
> A survey of carbon credit services :
>
>
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/03/survey_of_carbo.php
>
>
> Happy camping!
>
>
> Tom Myers
> Rochester NY
> 90 Westy
> 91 Syncro
> http://motsvan.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
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