Goodbye 100w, 75w Incandescent Lamps

[JoeSpareBedroom]

No. But, my trust level these days is virtually zero.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Most people don't even know how to open the yellow pages and find a hardware store. If they figured out where to take hazardous waste, it would be the result of the wind randomly blowing the phone book open to the correct page that showed local government offices.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

A lot of them bought the sizzle. Or, they were just stupid. Example: A couple I know had an Escalade, thinking it would be great for hauling around the three kids and some groceries, something I did easily with my 92 Taurus sedan and I was buying enormous loads of groceries at the time. The wife later got a job that involved a 40 minute commute. She was surprised to find that she was getting about 12 mpg doing 55 on a flat highway. They sold the tank and bought some GM sedan.

Surprised? Did she expect the tank to get significantly better mileage than the numbers on the window sticker? What an idiot.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

zzzzzzz...........

[JoeSpareBedroom]

No, it's not free.

[Jim Redelfs]

Yes, dear.

The public isn't getting enough "education"? Far from it. The SUV has been under constant, in-your-face, attack from all directions for years. Yet, they continue to sell well. Do you think even MORE attacks on the genre will have greater effect? I think not.

Your cavalier attitude reveals much. It is entirely likely that you have NO idea of the information I have, good, better or best.

Having lived in the snowbelt for >54 years, and now in my 6th year of ownership of my first ever four-wheel drive vehicle, and having driven numerous front-drive cars, I can assure you that 4WD is better by far in poor traction conditions.

Have you ever owned (not just driven) a 4WD vehicle?

Don't be too sure of that. We have ALL had four-wheel "stop" since the early

1930s. It's the "going" part that places a 4WD vehicle, piloted by a competent driver, well ahead of ANY configuration of two-wheel drive, killer snow tires notwithstanding.

You got THAT right! I often miss my Metro, and not just at the gas pump.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

In some places, they can't sell certain materials for some reason. That's the explanation I heard about why we only recycle plastics #1 & #2 here, but not the other stuff.

[dpb]

Those features _ARE_ present everywhere as it is a standard part of NRC licensing rules.

As for containment, it'll stand anything up to a direct hit from a bunker-buster or similar ordinance. If there were anywhere I'd choose to be in an earthquake or such, inside containment would be one real safe choice... :)

In reality, any external assault is extremely unlikely to do any damage to anything other than secondary equipment outside containment such as the turbine-generators or the switchyard. The most likely way for a real incident to occur would be as an "inside job" where an employee became a mole.

In reality, there would never be a need for a massive evacuation in a panic mode--the requirement for one is simply a current licensing stipulation inserted as a pacifier to the anti-nuke crowd. A LWR fuel assembly simply is not highly enriched enough to make a nuclear explosion--the worst that can happen is a core melt incident similar to TMI which takes on the order of hours even if the operators make essentially every possible wrong decision as they did there in the early stages of the accident(*).

(*) If they had simply left the situation alone and let the HPI and RC pump systems on, all would have been over within a couple hours and they could have restarted in a few weeks at the outside after reworking the HP relief valve on the pressurizer that stuck open after the reactor trip.

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[JoeSpareBedroom]

The only negatives people are hearing about SUVs is about their relatively lousy gas mileage.

I own one now. A Tacoma 4WD, with Blizzaks on it, and I am the best on earth. Therefore, my conclusion is so perfect and flawless, it aches to think about its flawless perfection.

[Jim Redelfs]

Uh, because they BOUGHT them?

Then again, perhaps many were coerced into the purchase by operatives of the Detroit underworld. Scary. :\\

Yes.

Yes.

However, if SUV popularity were based solely - or even mostly - on hype and advertising, the REPEAT BUYER would be a minority. S/he isn't.

[dpb]

Wrongly placed. If they don't care, they're likely to be even less informed...if anything, it should be _MORE_ difficult to vote, not less...

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[Jim Redelfs]

The advertising agency that creates the campaign and the media entities that disseminate it. It's pretty simple, really.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

What percentage of first time SUV owners bought another SIMILAR one? Not from a Cherokee to a RAV4, but from a Cherokee to a vehicle with similar gas mileage specs?

[JoeSpareBedroom]

That's silly. I'm talking about the "annuity" effect, like that received by construction companies which magically get contracts to repair a county's highways forever.

[Jim Redelfs]

For two reasons: They believe they are "making a difference" and/or they are required by law to do so.

Just remember: Adolph Hitler made a difference.

I "recycle" my containers and paper using the general waste stream, confident that it will eventually return from whence it came. There is enough landfill space to last virtually forever.

Modern landfills have a minimal environmental impact. Further, capturing the methane gas they produce, is providing RENEWABLE energy - such that it is. Given that, we obviously need MORE landfills. [ducking]

[Jim Yanik]

[e-mail] (Don Klipstein) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

says that's how India obtained their nuclear bombs.

So,I guess that exposes the anti-nukers for what they are.

[Jim Redelfs]

Sez you.

You got THAT right.

I have a good friend - a "small" business trash hauler - whose plan for comfortable retirement was RUINED by the recycling craze.

He had to build a huge pole shed to accommodate a new aspect of the business and purchase thousands of household bins. He sadly showed me the "recycled" milk jugs that occupied fully one-third of the new shed from the ground to the rafters because, at that time, there was no market for the plastic.

Our local, city-contracted hauler has stopped picking-up glass at curbside for recycling. What's with that? Could it be that there is not enough PROFIT in it? I honestly don't know why the change was enacted.

[Jim Yanik]

Jim Redelfs wrote in news: [e-mail]:

That's a lot of NONSENSE,as Iran signed the NPT,agreeing to monitoring of their entire nuclear program,not just the visible civilian power part of it. Once they violated their agreement.....off come the gloves.

[Jim Redelfs]

OK. I'm sober now and you're still wrong (and ugly).

Hehehehehehehe!

[Phisherman]

There's a good article in "Scientific American" about the impact of mercury contained in disposed CFL. If you are at all concerned about the environment, it's scary.