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Subject:Re: Brake cleaner, tire etc ..But wait, there's more!
From:S2
Date:Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:02:45 -0600

The really important question is: Where does the white go when you toast
your bread?

You should all know from science class that it is sucked into the wiring by
the toaster and fed to the electric lights to be emitted as needed to
brighten up a room.

Respectfuelly,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert A. Alexander <satcong@VOL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: Brake cleaner, tire treads, and organics

>Tom - Good observation.
... Some tree-huggers would have you believe that streams near the
>highways are ankle-deep in scrubbed off tire material.  Go figure?
>
>I remember, back in the 70s when I was in veterinary school, being
>exposed to "expert" studies, most, I think, were German, where they cut
>hay raised in the medians/sides of the highways and fed them to cattle,
>UNTIL the cattle were shown to be experiencing lead poisoning from the
>contaminated grass!  Jeez, this was some really RAD stuff!  Chlorinated
>hydrocarbons might be found on the medians/sides of highways???  God,
>that's ALMOST as RAD as the idea that one might find soil in old gas
>station lots "contaminated" with chlorinated hydrocarbons, huh???
>
>BOB - WA4RRN
>'85GL - "Bourgeois"
>http://www.hydrocarbon'sorganic.org
>

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