On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:51:40AM -0800, Dana Linscott wrote: > --- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Sloppily made BD can not only ruin an engine but > > spew much more crap > > into the air than commercial petrodiesel." - Dana > > Linscott. > > > > Please explain. > > I cannot believe that you are serious...but here goes > again. > > What goes into unregulated BD? NO ONE KNOWS. That is > the point. Without quality control which is out of the > hands of the producer > unscrupulous/unknowlegable/unskilled producers can put > "ANYTHING" in a tank and call it "biodiesel".
This is just a straw man arguement. If I set up a business making roller skates, who regulates my production? The market, of course, not to mention all the lawyers who make their living off of product liabilty lawsuits. If I make crummy skates, the company gets a bad rep and probably will go out of business. That's the way it works. There could be a trade group which sets some sort of standards for skates, and, if I joined them, would allow me to put the "approved" seal -- like U.L. for electrical products. If you've ever noticed, there are simply tons of electrical products on the market that aren't UL approved. Are they dangerous? Maybe. Maybe not. I buy lots of them, as a matter of fact. That's my business if I want to do that, the gov't can't make them get certified, but the market will if they don't make a good product. There are also laws about false advertising. If someone were to actually produce a product that caused pollution, that is the time for the EPA to step in. Given all the other pollution being spewed daily around the country that they do nothing about, what are they doing here, when there is utterly no proof of any pollution or possibility thereof? It's pretty obvious what's going on here, and it's criminal. Awhile back I was working in Mobile, AL at the university -- I was utterly shocked to find the the EPA listed Mobile County as the #2 place in the country for toxic emmisions and #5 for carcinogenic emissions (or visa versa) but that's really all they did. Listed it, and the chemical factories went right on dumping and spewing. And they shut down YBD???? Give me a break! Get real, Dana. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
