Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:27:43 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Vanagon's and Carburetors - Again
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Guys,
I know a place in Alaska called Circle Hot Springs - in winter it takes
a good Syncro to get there (VC)- where year round you can rest your buns
on a heated toity, and there are no emissions involved in producing the
heat (thermal hot springs) for warming your buns. The only emissions
involved are from you!
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Don Hanson wrote:
> Wait a minute, there, Jake...(Grin!)
>
> "spewing toxins into the atmosphere..." ?
>
> Is that not a slight overstatement?
> A Vanagon is only ~2liters of displacement and even in a awful state of
> tune it probably puts out less pollutants than a lawnmower or a Briggs and
> Statton generator...That says nothing for things like Hummers, Prevost
> motorhomes, giant Chrysler station wagons, etc etc. Huge displacement,
> large frontal area, multi-ton GVW, yet still with just one person aboard..
> I find some of the emissions laws are so ridiculous that it's almost a
> crime that someone gets paid to make that crap up and enforce it (sometimes)
> Like years back when I lived near Tacoma, Wa. and the ASARCO smelter was
> still operating in total violation of EPA rules, but they just went on
> spewing tons of crap every day and paid the fine..some silly low figure..
> Or the SDGE (San Diego Gas & Electric) "green" power project scam, where
> they are finessing a new power line route through one of the few un-spoiled
> desert areas left in So Cal (the Anza-Borrego State park) in order to bring
> "green power" into the Southern California grid, because the "present
> transmission lines are inadequate" Except...the real reason is they've
> built a new coal plant in Mexico near Calexico and plan to sell that cheap
> unregulated and highly polluting power to the folks in southern Cal using
> that new transmission line through the desert wilderness...oh yes, almost a
> whole 2% of the power that will come over that new line will be from a solar
> facility....whoopee...
> You could run every VW bus in the world and not put out the emissions of
> that one coal plant (it is in Mexico, though, so it's ok)...All so the
> McMansions in Fallbrook or Rancho Santa Fey can cool their 4th bathroom or
> air condition the 6 car garage... And that is just one county in a whole
> huge country...What is going on around YOUR county?
> So "spewing toxins into the atmosphere?" I guess it is all relative...
> Don Hanson
>
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:01:56 -0700
> From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Vanagon's and Carburetors - Again
>
> All of which begs the question: just because there's no regulatory body
> preventing you from spewing toxins into the atmosphere, should you be doing
> that?
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:55 AM, dylan friedman <insyncro@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> UpState NY.
>> If the vehicle is pre 95 there is no emissions testing, thank goodness.
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>> df
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