Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Sigh... Sad stuff. That's quite some act of snipping though, LOL! And the relevance of the Ford Pinto remains undiscovered, like everything else. Well, nothing else for it... <> Keith Addison Journey to Forever KYOTO Pref., Japan http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel list owner >Apparently my

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Craig Barrett
Apparently my mail server stumbled... >>I've never had a Ford of any sort. >:-) You demonstrate your ignorance. From the useless list archives: No, I think I'd know if I'd ever owned a Ford, so no ignorance there. What I did was ignore your argumentum ad hominem (gotta love that latin) much as

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
>Just check the ingredients (if you can) used to manufacture charcoal >briquettes. Really? Damn. Hm. I see brown coal and paraffin, nothing more sinister though. Best Keith >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Keith Addison >Sent: Thursda

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
If you say so... > > I'll stick with the precautionary principle, you ride off into the >>sunset in your Ford Pinto. > >I've never had a Ford of any sort. :-) You demonstrate your ignorance. From the useless list archives: http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/SO77/dowie.html Pinto Madness I

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Craig Barrett
> If you say so. :-) ROFL :-) > I don't think there's any need for me to spell out the difference >between a genuine request for evidence and mere deliberate and >cynical (criminal?) delaying tactics. And how does one know which is which? There are occasions when it's more justifiable to jump

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Andy Karpay
Just check the ingredients (if you can) used to manufacture charcoal briquettes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Addison Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:10 PM To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Sh

[Biofuel] Critical Pesticide Program Cut

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Critical Pesticide Program Cut By Annie Bell Muzaurieta The Daily Green, May 21 2008 http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/pesticide-data-program-cut-44052108 The USDA Is Eliminating a Program That Many Groups Rely on to Track Pesticide Use and Safety - but Why? Every year the USDA's N

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Kirk McLoren
's natural state, >unrefined, and not touched, the way it should be. Doing anything >else with it, is just insane. That's my take. > >Proving that, otoh, has proven to be pretty difficult. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofue

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Andy I wonder what happened to the US plans to recycle radioactive nuclear wastes into common household appliances like kitchen cutlery and babies' prams and so on? The proposals came up a couple of times. Did they just drop it or are they going ahead without telling anybody? Similar sort o

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Craig If you say so. :-) >ExxonMobil has every right to ask for the proof. If not, where does one >draw the line? If you were running a business and I told you you had to >spend a whole lot of money to change the way you do business based on a >claim I had about damage you were causing,

[Biofuel] Thieves swipe used cooking oil to brew biodiesel

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Mr Burke sure didn't get much right. The industry view: >So far, members of the National Biodiesel Board haven't reported >feedstock thefts, but that doesn't mean they aren't happening on a >small scale, said Amber Thurlo Pearson, a spokeswoman for the >industry's national trade association. >

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Craig Barrett
> I didn't defend the article, all I did was debunk your statement that >it didn't give any references. No, you didn't, since the only reference the article gives is one to another article that similarly doesn't give any actual information beyond numbers with no context. The numbers in the two a

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Andy Karpay
Here in Florida we have 'gypsum stacks' which are huge piles of ... Gypsum a by-product from the processing of phosphate to "fertilizer". It is somewhat (very low level) radio-active, and as such cannot be used for road beds, construction etc. I'll bet that DU is stronger, and worse for the imbib

[Biofuel] are you being controlled by corn?

2008-05-22 Thread Kirk McLoren
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Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Craig I didn't defend the article, all I did was debunk your statement that it didn't give any references. Your response is much the same: "I haven't read the report, perhaps I will if I can find it and have time...", "I don't have the links anymore..." >Other pages I found (I >don't have the

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

2008-05-22 Thread Craig Barrett
Hi The linked article (the second reference from the Gulf War page) also doesn't really give anything useful. It gives numbers, but not reasons. 11000 dead, but how many actually died due to the Gulf War? Perhaps the eminent scientist is being misquoted and did actually specifically say that all