Posted on 03/05/2017 7:18:16 AM PST by rktman
The Environmental Protection Agency will announce a change in automobile emissions standards next week, undoing a last minute effort by the Obama administration to lock in the rules through 2025. The NY Times reports:
The tailpipe pollution regulations were among Mr. Obama’s major initiatives to reduce global warming and were put forth jointly by the E.P.A. and the Transportation Department. They would have forced automakers to build passenger cars that achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, compared with about 36 miles per gallon today
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I told you wrong about how to test for alcohol in gasoline. It has been awhile. Here is the correct procedure:
•On a test tube or olive bottle six or seven inches long, make a permanent line about two inches from the bottom.
•Fill with water to this line, then fill the tube to the top with gasoline.
•Cover the tube, agitate it, and let it stand.
The ethanol and water will mix and separate out together. If the water level appears to have increased, the fuel contains ethanol and should not be used. Ethanol percentages of less than 5% can sometimes give a reading below the line. Therefore, any deviation in the water line indicates the presence of ethanol and should serve as a basis for rejecting the fuel.
This is from Peterson Aviation who sold me the STC that allows me to use auto fuel in our airplane.
http://www.autofuelstc.com/fuel_testing.phtml
Keep going, Trump! Driving a tin can smaller than a golf cart is a homicidal nihilists’ dream come true.
That is pretty funny. But I do hate to tell you that your neighbor may be correct that some locations outside of Florida are not experiencing sea level rise. Satellites show that the amount of land mass in the world has actually grown since such measurements have become possible. This is because of many factors, but mostly because erosion continues to deposit sediment in coastal areas. There are also areas where coastal areas are rising faster than the seas because of subterranean forces pushing up on them, not to mention volcanoes and even people like the Chinese creating "artificial" islands. And then there are places it appears that the sea is rising faster because long time landmarks used to measure the tide in the area have been sinking.
We have friends and family who are long time residents in Florida. My aunt and uncle have lived on a canal that goes directly to the Gulf of Mexico in Ft. Meyers for the past 40 years. I asked my uncle if the sea level had risen noticeably on his property in the last 40 years. He said maybe a couple inches, but he really couldn't tell for sure. In pictures they have showing their dock and sea wall there is no noticeable differences.
Two years ago, we stayed overnight in St. Augustine Florida which was established in 1565 and is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States. It is of course directly on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. In almost 600 years we were told that the tidal gauges and land marks indicated about a 2 foot sea level rise.
Satellite data shows that the rate of sea level rise has not increased in the last 80 years yet there is a lot of clamoring for cash by politicians to help mitigate for “climate change” for coastal cities in Florida. The politicians claim that climate change has been making the periodic flooding they have been experiencing for the last 600 years in St. Augustine worse recently, but no hard evidence has been presented that I am aware of.
let’s start with privatizing interstates and eliminating federal gas tax
Dayum dude, the thing holding me back from cashing in the equity on the condo here in CA for something we could keep the horse on is that my property taxes would go from about $2500/year to around $10,000/year.
I always get the jaws dropping and eyeballs bugging when I tell people here the property tax on my square mile in Nevada is about $36.50, I could pick that up in an afternoon of scavenging bottles and cans from the side of the freeway...
Doh, I just realized you were talking car property tax, ARF!
LOL. It’s OK.
FWIW, I go to a lot of estate/tag sales. My unofficial, non-scientific poll, tells me that 100% of the folks I talk to, who are retiring, are selling their house and moving out of the state. 100%. The drain on the CT economy must be astronomical. 100%.
Our governor-emperor: *Did I do that?*
You forgot -
define the correct number of “humans” for the planet
LOL! Well, to some of the eco wankers, that number would be ZERO so muver erf can just keep rollin’ without us ruining her. ;-)
Let the wankers be the first exit the human overload -
Silly. They only want conservatives to commit. That way “they” can carry on the good work of saving the erf.
Erosion and plate tectonics are always active, land masses are always moving in all directions over time. So making measurements at any fixed point isn’t necessarily accurate. So yes, there may be an impression of the sea rising but it couldn’t be localized to one area.
Hey, I was just trying to give your gullible, hapless, global warming warrior neighbor some kind of rational excuse for her irrational belief system. ; )
I find it interesting that even in what would appear to be a fairly straight forward mathematical endeavor... combining data from known historical reference points from around the world to establish the rate at which the oceans are rising or falling... that there are still ways to fudge the data to make outlandish claims.
One would assume that Al Gore and associates claims that the oceans are rising at an accelerated rate and will soon be swallowing Florida and New York City would be so easy to refute that they would not even try to make them. But of course people who believe that a carburetor patent purchased by oil company could have increased the fuel efficiency of old cars and trucks by six to nine times will believe what they want to regardless of the actual evidence.
The seas most likely have risen a foot or two in the approximately six hundred years since St. Augustine Florida was founded. The amount is apparently less than the daily variation from high to low tide. What is not supported by the evidence is whether or not the activities of mankind had anything to do with it or that rate of rise has accelerated greatly in the last 50 years.
:) yep, no worries.
...and you would think it would be fairly straight forward, until you consider all the variables - including *when* you measure. I could imagine earthquakes around the world causing harmonic spikes in specific places, or even the cyclic position of the moon, combinations of all things. It’s amazing how dynamic the Earth environment is. You’d only be able to measure over a very long period of time.
Which makes it a perfect vehicle for left-wing policies; make an assertion, fudge some data, declare the science to be finished while knowing it’s difficult to prove otherwise. It’s astonishing that the predictions can only be bad and that all of the socialist/communist ideas are the only solutions!! /S
When I fly, I’m often amazed at just how massive this planet is, just looking at the atmosphere and oceans. If I randomly look out the window, I almost always see absolutely nothing in terms of human presence. Most of the land is not populated. Even in cities, you can see at any given moment how empty most of the roads are. Yet these people really believe we’re on the brink of destroying it all.
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