Date:         Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:53:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Gas Gen. in Engine space?  Nooooo!
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  If ever a VW Vanagon pulled in near me to park/camp and fired up a
friggin' Generator...I'd be appalled!

  Now, I've come to expect it (noisy selfish behavior)  from the Bloated
Mo-Ho Crowd.  They are largely (pun) clueless when it comes to realizing the
impact they have on others when they park nearby and fire up their obnoxious
generators for their own dubious pleasures..It's just plain not good
citizenship to intrude on others in a public space by creating a continuous
irritating noise with a gasoline powered generator-but many don't realize
that and other's flat don't give a rats-a** about anyone but themselves.
   If  you're in a parking lot or a racetrack or perhaps an OHV park..then
the nagging motor noise of a gasoline generator can be expected.  Even a
forest service campground or a National Park..I guess I've gotten used to
that nagging "Tooth-ache" of background noise from  the selfish pigs who
fire em up then go inside...or pull in nearby with the exhaust pipe of their
Onan or Briggs Stratton pointed right at me...who often say.."Well geeze, MY
generator isn't noisy, I can hardly hear it, I don't mind it at all"
  But when you are camping, when you've gone a great distance to get away
from the noise and crowds and someone sets up nearby then fires up a
generator....that sucks!  I try to park where the big pig Mo-Hos can't get
close.  When that is not possible, I have my earplugs, or... I hope.  I
often have to re-pack and move away from the late arriving Leisure
Suit-folding chair- get the ladder off the back crowd .
 If I was in a Winnebago-free zone, down some small road or track
inaccessible to the huge Ps O. S. and another Vanagon pulled up nearby, I
certainly would not mind...but if it fired up a Generator....I'd be crushed!
I'd sell my VW and shoot myself...Ugg.  Baaad idea, the generator...Go solar
or get an extra battery or use a candle and read a nice quiet book..Or stay
home and use The Grid for power..

  Rant over,
  Don Hanson