----- Original Message -----
From: John Berry
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: Outrage !!
Great, so $1360 a month, .
Ends up about $800 for me a month, not including picking up my fiancee from
her workplace. I suppose she could quit working at the grocery store and
save that gasoline....maybe high-minded individuals like Jed don't need to
eat? Do they derive energy from cold fusion instead of food?
I imagine someone will suggest I use the train or the bus. Won't work. No
mass transit on that scale here. Believe me, when times were really hard a
few years back, I tried to find a way to take the bus to work. I would
either get there a couple hours early, and home a couple hours late, ruining
my day and that of my fiancee, making her have to walk a long way home from
work in the cold and snow, or I would get to work an hour late, and leave an
hour early. It doesn't work.
Jed wants this idiotic tax on mileage. But he has no solution to the real
problem. This is a typical reaction these days: working on real, hardball,
nuts-and-bolts solutions is just too hard...so instead, lets just be lazy
and put blanket "solutions" over the problems to try and feel good about
having "done something". I have heard it suggested that "global warming
deniers" be punished as criminals. What about people who propose "blanket
solutions" that do more harm than help?
let's hope Jed doesn't get a job in government
The Republicans would like it though....it would make Bush's reign of terror
look benign in comparison.
But at the very least Jed's figures are 10 times too high at least,
possible s much as 100 times too high.
It is not just that.... it is that the proposed solution is absolute
stupidity. But again, proposing stupidity is easy, finding real answers (or
at least trying to) is bloody hard. It comes down to how motivated a person
is. Or maybe I am just wasting my time looking for answers.
I'll come clean a bit for a moment, and reveal a small part of my personal
research, which is, trying to develop add-ons for internal combustion
engines that dramatically improve efficiency and lower emissions, and in a
way that is simple to repair, cheap enough for anyone, and can be adapted to
existing engines. I have had failures, I have had successes. I pushed the
mileage of my previous vehicle, a 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a 5.0L V8
up to 28mpg on the highway. This was with simple modifications, like a
custom made camshaft, improving the spark delivery, beefing up the ignition
system and timing advance, and a lot of trial and error with the Edelbrock
carburetor. 28mpg is better than most passenger cars get (when tested in
real life, not on the dyno), even by today's standards (excepting the
hybrids, which are by no means the poor-worker's car). The exhaust had
almost no smell to it, disturbingly little. This was with no catalytic
converters, no AIR system, no evaporative emissions system, no EGR valve, no
crap of that nature that serves only to net the dealer a lot of money when
it invariably fails. I had not progressed yet to putting an exhaust heat
driven system on it to further increase the efficiency (to my knowledge,
that part is somewhat novel, so I won't get into it here) nor did I get a
chance to spray atomized water into the intake, allowing me to further lean
the mixture and advance timing without spark knock. It was before I got to
do this, that the ultra-left high-minded people decided that my car was not
acceptable to drive, for lack of emissions systems and having a swapped
motor. When I tried to explain what I was doing, they said no. I tried to
register it custom, they said no. I begged them to do a 4 gas analysis to
prove that it was clean, they refused to look at it. Isn't it ironic that
the high-minders who want to save us all from supposed global warming are
the ones who actively seek out and destroy research? Isn't it ironic that if
Jed got his way, all the money I make would be diverted to paying his stupid
tax, and there would be none left for me to use to look for real world
solutions, instead of his "easy chair" proposals?
Much less for me to provide for my family?
Hell, I'm not even married to Natalia yet and I am already taking care of
her family! Her father in law apparently has ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), so
I have to help with that as well. Am I required to? No. Am I obligated to by
my beliefs? YES. I spend nothing on myself besides my research, which
ultimately is for the service of mankind. I spend on others to help. You
want to tax all of my income away, Jed, so I can do no help for others? You
are a worse enemy to the people than any poor bastard driving a junker car.
The hurt and wake of destruction you would bring, should you ever ascend to
a position of power is staggering.
--Kyle
