Date:         Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:24:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon's and Carburetors - Again
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  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:

> UpState NY.
> If the vehicle is pre 95 there is no emissions testing, thank goodness.
>
> df