Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:41:36 -0800
Reply-To: Derek Burgess <ddb.graphic@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Derek Burgess <ddb.graphic@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Oil pressure warnings, WAS: Mann Oil Filter and lifters,
now emissions indicator lights.
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Slippery slope-
Secondly, I commute by bike 5 days a week and drive my van 1% of the time.
We past the point of no return with *O2 concentration in the atmosphere- so the conversations are mute. That's what makes me laugh.. and your response.
-Derek
mobile
> On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:30 AM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Derk, for your information, I DO ride a bike, and I walk a lot rather than drive out of conservation concerns. It is folks like you who are the problem, not those of us whom you consider to be laughingly foolish. Do you like cancer, emphysema, dead forests and rivers?
>
> Good grief! mcneely
>
> ---- Derek Burgess <ddb.graphic@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> These conservation conversations give me the LOLz. Go ride a bike. >:D
>>
>> -Derek
>> mobile
>>
>>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, Don, It is true that the massive sources you cite are real, and enormously outweigh any emission from any single vehicle. But vehicles remain major sources, and DO need to be regulated. Collectively, they matter a lot. mcneely
>>>
>>> ---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 5, 2014 5:26 AM, "David Bjorkman" <ddbjorkman@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Wait a minute Dennis. My bus (87 Vanagon w/ VW Gen 5 inline gas) is
>>>> OBDII and it doesn't tell me if the gas tank cover is loose :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "maintenance indicator light" is there for. ..... These vehicles
>>>>>> will even know if there is a fuel vapor leak such as a bad tank cap.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dennis
>>>>
>>>> Hold on fellas...It's a good thing to have to chase down "indicated" faults
>>>> like an indicated gas cap vapor leak? Where's the priority here?
>>>>
>>>> When BP dumps billions of Kilos of carbon from a cheaped-out oil platform
>>>> for over a year? When 4 coal trains a day...all with 100+ coal cars pass
>>>> through my back yard heading to China? When fracking all over the U S is
>>>> causing kitchen faucets to emit more pollutants than a compliant Vanagon?
>>>>
>>>> I think the Regulators miss the point often... as I said earlier in this
>>>> thread.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David McNeely
>
> --
> David McNeely
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