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<p>[quote user="wallyworld"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <b>wallyworld:</b></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>This is a noisy tempest in a teapot that will bounce like a bad check for years...written on a Rube Goldberg theory of semantics whose cost is carried to us as another trickle in a leaking dike. </p> <p>Not enough thumbs to go around. Stupidity squared. Ad hoc and random. </p> <p>What is needed is to drop the cross purposes get a national plan and do it..stop the endless parsing over who does what and who sits on his butt. </p> <p>We need a national policy that ties energy-pollution-efficiency..a long term plan..one minor issue ..</p> <p>the nation is broke and it is spinning around in narrowing semantic circles like a rudderless speedboat while commentators prattle on and on and on 24\7.</p> <p>No more FA's on the California Wine train putting soot on the grapes for the Chardonnay.No more buses belching more soot than a Mallet..ah, California..land of dreams and navel gazing. </p> <p>Iconoclasts need a PAC to regulate intelligence quotas.Good luck on that one, eh?</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">Could you be a little more specific?</span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>Lawsuits originating on the premise of the greater good of the public that use a semantic manipulation of legal language to set a new standard of airborne particulate matter as a hazardous waste is a form of pretzel logic..meaning that it's effectiveness is moot . Endless future legal tests will come in the courts and this suggests to me that if this "case" of language interpretation went to the Supreme Court..after bouncing around the lower courts for years..and as a background, consider the context of this case we already know the watered down EPA wont touch this topic with a ten foot stick with power plants, automobiles blah, blah, because it interferes with commerce, the profitability of the nation which translates into the health of the economy which by then will either be terminal or in the ER along with other nations by that time. It's a non starter. .My son in his previous position was a federal attorney, a prosecutor with the EPA..and his experience was that politics is just a background for commerce versus special interests and guess who wins? Fines are paid and it's business as usual. Or a drawn out work out is arranged which then falters adds more fines..it's cheaper to pay the fines as they say. Commerce trumps particulate matter as it stands to think otherwise is naive.Of course, in my opinion.</p> <p>Think of it this way, forget about railroad yards in California.<i>.think of the implications a successful suit would bring to other sources of hazardous waste..if the language is affirmed</i> by way of semantics..I don't see it happening.unless they discover that affordibilium. ..</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well thanks for clearing that up. I agree with your suggestion of this setting a precedent that could lead to wider regulation. </span></span></p>
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