Glad this isn't California

I hear that John just recently got a job at Snap-on Tools.

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:33:57 -0800, Bob Monsen wrote: ...

And THAT is how the buildings cause cancer.

Back in the '70's or so, "save energy" was the big rallying cry, and they looked at what it costs to heat or cool outdoor air and keep flushing new air through the structure, and they found that if you sealed the building up so that no air could get in or out, the heating and cooling costs are a fraction of what it takes to heat or cool a building that has ventilation.

The first victims of this "tight-building syndrome",

So, did they reinstate ventilation? No! They banned smoking, the idiots. You have banned your best indicator of inadequate ventilation. Oh, wait, it can't be inadequate because it was mandated by the powers- that-be, and they're infallible, right?

Wrong.

Thanks, Rich

That's not really appropriate - at least at the end of that story there was a real wolf! It makes me think of the part of "Chicken Little", where CL is frantically running around hysterically trying to convince everybody that the sky is falling.

That story has never held my interest long enough to where I ever find out if the sky actually did fall, but I have no doubt someone will be kind enough to enlighten me. :-)

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I wonder how many of us have ever seen a gubby little 1.5" extruder running flat-out! I have, and it's worth crossing the street to see. :-)

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That's pretty much how the antismokerists got the smoking bans shoved down our throats.

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He and she and me and the chimpanzee agree, That one day soon you'll bee a celeb-ri-tee. ;-)

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Couldn't find its elbow in a hailstorm.

;-} Rich

Or one in the welfare office, "If you can't feed them, don't breed them."

Nah, they'd declare that racist.

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So, you're saying that the New York legislators think their constituents are even stupider than the California legislators think theirs are? ;-)

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Drink the stuff? When I filled up my tank at Valero's here in California, there was a warning not to siphon by mouth... I was looking to see if there was an MTBE warning, but no such luck.

It's a competition. NY doesn't allow automatic/latching pump nozzles while NJ doesn't even allow self-serve. CA?

NY was also about $.25/gal more expensive than neighboring states across the top (VT+$.20, and PA+ $.25, Ohio+$.40) last week.

Yeah, NY legislators think they're in competition with CA for the dumb constituents contest. Note that they're both quite blue states.

In CA, the pump nozzles have a sort of cuff thing, with an interlock switch. You have to shove the nozzle down into the filler pipe hard enough that that cuff - kind of a bellows, but like 1/2" pitch, and really stiff - seals itself around the filler hole, before it will dispense gasoline. This is supposed to recover the vapor so that it doesn't make [more] smog.

It seems to be working - I've seen blue sky over LA these last few years, unlike the bown smudge of 15 years ago. :-)

Cheers! Rich

Those things are in use everywhere, even VT.

Oh, that is different. Winters in VT are a gray smudge, unless it's -20F (been pretty bad here in IL this week too).

ISTR the problem with MTBE is not that it is so toxic, but moves fast in groundwater and tastes awfully.

Gas leakages should be the real problem...

Thomas

You'd think it might at least be a subject of concern. so imagine my suprise when I watched NYC transit worker hosing off the underground platform at 34th street... late at night but in a system that does not shut down, so the the 3rd rail was very much live (otherwise we wouldn't be waiting for the train). Not only did they hose the platform, they flipped it up to get the ceiling, in a way that it seems would have had to get the rails for an instant too. Guess Lord Rayleigh is their protector.

I walked away from that puddle on the platform anyway.

Not so many small ones like that, but there are many, many plastic extruders in the US (say 4" and up). Extrusion of pipe, tubing etc. is big business, and the stuff is bulky and not so easily shipped.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

actually the legalese is not all that new, i live in californicate, but be aware california would be a G8 economy in its own right, thus our weird legalese swings heavy lumber.

That one is to pretend to protect you from the evil banksters within. BTW i am tired of fees for using any "service" that the bank "provides", i have not had to pay them to check my account balance until recently. Methinks i need a new bank.

If all i had to do was cross a street, i certainly would. Traveling to China to see one is a bit different, and i do not think that there is many in the USA.