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To: Brumar89 who wrote (67712)	1/2/2016 5:16:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86350

Don't catch fire. Stop at a 7SSS[tm] station. Superchargers are absurd. Parking en route for half an hour for a part charge which can burn your car while swarms of 7SSS [tm] drivers swoop in an out of a single adjacent lane will soon show the paucity of the big battery, big weight, high cost, high energy consumption, heavier car, higher momentum idea pursued by Tesla. Stopping for a 7 second pit stop while a little battery is pulled out and a recharged one is pushed in is the way to go. The recharging of the recycled batteries can be done at just the right speed to optimize electricity supply costs and battery charging optimums. People who get a replacement battery in the middle of the night or at other low power price times would get bargain refills. Tesla super-chargers are stuck with having to supply when the driver shows up to plug in. Peak times would be a nightmare. Huge parking lots would be needed for thousands of motorists to sit around for half an hour to get their bit of electricity. Laughable to think that all cars could do that. Cars refill with gasoline in about 3 minutes so there would need to be at least 20 times as many service stations as at present if all cars went to Tesla Supercharger refill style. Streets would be all service station! With Mq's amazing 7SSS[tm] the number of service stations could be REDUCED by half or maybe ten times. With little batteries, more frequent 7 second stops would be needed, but even if four times as many stops were needed, that would still be only 30 seconds or maybe 60 seconds to allow for dithering by drivers. 7SSS [tm] is the way to go. No fires. Cheaper electricity. No time wasting. Little service stations instead of 100 acres for thousands of Tesla supercharged cars to park for half an hour. Mqurice

To: Brumar89 who wrote (67712)	1/3/2016 1:06:13 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86350

EPA claims Gold King spill just erupted all by itself These federal agencies (EPA, NASA GISS, NOAA, IRS, VA) are filled with Democrats who think they're above the law. EPA Now Says It's Not to Blame for Gold King Mine Spill On August 5, a crew from the Environmental Protection Agency caused a spill of 3 million gallons of water laden with mercury, arsenic, and other toxic metals from the Gold King mine into a river that supplies drinking water for three states. While the EPA initially promised to hold itself accountable in the same manner that it would hold a private party, it is becoming increasingly evident that this assertion was not entirely accurate. After the spill, the EPA commissioned an initial analysis of what happened from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (BOR). The Bureau of Reclamation found that the EPA hit a spring with a backhoe to cause the spill, but the report did not assign blame. Now, a new EPA report has the same failing, further showing that the EPA report is shirking responsibility for its actions. The EPA's Report In their report, the EPA claims it was engaged in only "careful scraping and excavation" with a backhoe outside the mine. "Just prior to finishing, a team noticed a water spout a couple of feet high in the air near where they had been excavating." The report goes on to say that the spout (that they just happened to notice) quickly turned into a gusher of yellow toxic water. It seems the EPA would have us believe the mine erupted on its own (which is like arguing, but, Your Honor, I was just carrying the gun when it went off all on its own!). The EPA's report goes on to allege that the mine entrance (or adit) was larger than they "anticipated," and the "fact that the adit opening was about 2 times the assumed 8 to 10 foot maximum adit height resulted in a closer than anticipated proximity to the adit brow, and combined with the pressure of the water was enough to cause the spout and blowout." In other words, the mine did it! Is it possible that the spill was caused by the EPA being careless? Nope. The authors claim they were digging "to better inform a planned consultation" scheduled for nine days later. Essentially, the EPA claims that the spill was an act of God, rather than its own fault. Not a Good Argument The EPA argument is unpersuasive for two reasons. For starters, the EPA has prosecuted private parties for the same conduct. The government prosecuted Edward Hanousek, an employee of the Pacific Arctic Railway and Navigation Company, for conduct so similar to the EPA's that one can simply switch out the nouns in the prosecutor's closing argument that proved successful in that case. It would seem to be just as apt to the facts of the Animas River spill: "When [the backhoe operator] hit that unprotected [spring] and that [3 million gallons of toxic mine water] fired out of that [spring], sprayed up into the air, and got into that [Animas River], the[] defendants . [became] guilty of negligent discharging [acid mine water] into the [Animas] River." Second, although the initial Bureau of Reclamation report buries most of the facts that are relevant to the cause of the spill under 120 pages of superfluous information, the Bureau of Reclamation report includes just enough facts to make it clear that had a private party caused the Animas River spill, the government would probably have criminally prosecuted that party. Government Accountability Remember EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy's announcement shortly after the spill occurred? McCarthy said then that "we want to reassure everyone that the EPA does take full responsibility for the spill." It turns out that the federal government's measure of "full responsibility" has typically meant that criminal charges will be brought for the same conduct by which the EPA caused the Animas River spill as long as only private parties are to blame. The truth is that the EPA has now made several attempts to evade responsibility. First, the EPA allegedly "doctored" a video of the spill-getting "called on the discrepancy during a House committee hearing." Then the EPA commissioned a report from the Bureau of Reclamation that was designed to look credible-which, like a bad student term paper, was lengthy and full of unnecessary charts and illustrations-but recited just enough facts to stay relevant to the spill. And even those facts made the EPA look bad. Now the EPA has published an eleventh-hour report that not only reads like a term paper written on the bus en route to school, but also evades responsibility almost entirely. In a glimmer of honesty, the EPA report admits that "n retrospect, and based on information learned [later]," the EPA's team was "much closer [to the opening of the mine] when excavating on August 5 than they thought." This is like saying the Titanic was closer to an iceberg than the captain thought. Heritage Foundation scholars initially argued that the EPA "should prosecute the subordinate and supervisory EPA officials in this case or stop bringing similar charges against private parties for their negligence." Had Hanousek worked for the EPA, it seems, he would never have been stigmatized and punished as a criminal. After the Bureau of Reclamation report, we argued that "[s]omeone should ask the EPA and the Justice Department why the federal government discriminates in favor of government employees and against private parties." Now, after the EPA published its own report, it seems like Congress will have its work cut out for it if it's going to get even so much as a meaningful acceptance of responsibility from this agency. http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/21/epa-now-says-theyre-not-to-blame-for-gold-king-mine-spill/

To: Brumar89 who wrote (67712)	1/5/2016 7:56:48 AM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By gg cox Respond to of 86350

Don't play with gasoline or diesel.. You might get your fingers burned. U.S. VEHICLE FIRE TRENDS AND PATTERNS Abstract In 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 287,000 vehicle fires per year. These fires caused an average of 480 civilian deaths, 1,525 civilian injuries, and $1.3 billion in direct property damage annually. Cars, trucks and other highway vehicles (meaning a vehicle designed for highway use,not that the fire occurred on a highway) accounted for 93% of the vehicle fires and 92% of the vehicle fire deaths. tkolb.net