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Manufacturers, Retailers to Put the Brakes on Use of Lead Wheel Weights
www.ohsonline.com ^ | 09/03/2008 | Staff

Posted on 09/03/2008 7:24:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

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Braking News!...............
1 posted on 09/03/2008 7:24:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: sully777; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; muleskinner; sausageseller; ...

This is beyond ridiculous............


2 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder how big the replacement weights are going to be.


3 posted on 09/03/2008 7:27:23 AM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: Red Badger
I demand depleted uranium wheel weights! (1.67 times the density of lead)
4 posted on 09/03/2008 7:27:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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I wonder how big the replacement weights are going to be.

40% smaller if my demands in post #4 is met.

5 posted on 09/03/2008 7:28:22 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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To: Red Badger

If they can come up with an alternative to using lead, why is this so ridiculous???


6 posted on 09/03/2008 7:28:50 AM PDT by Living Free in NH
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How about those little fishing sinkers I bite on so they clamp down on the line. I think they’re next.


7 posted on 09/03/2008 7:28:54 AM PDT by toast
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To: Red Badger
Well, if we replace lead by depleted uranium (nice and heavy) from spent nuclear reactor cores, we would solve the "lead problem", as well as "what to do with nuclear waste". That's called a "win-win" situation!
8 posted on 09/03/2008 7:29:34 AM PDT by TomKOne
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To: Red Badger

“This is beyond ridiculous..”

Why?


9 posted on 09/03/2008 7:30:30 AM PDT by Magic Fingers
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Gee, now I’ll have to buy salmon sinkers instead of casting them from wheel weights. Oh, no big deal, I forgot that we’re not allow to fish for salmon anymore.


10 posted on 09/03/2008 7:30:41 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Living Free in NH
If they can come up with an alternative to using lead, why is this so ridiculous???

Cost.

11 posted on 09/03/2008 7:30:54 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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I think the solution is smaller more streamlined uranuim weights. The can be so small as to be pretty much unseen.


12 posted on 09/03/2008 7:31:26 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: Red Badger

Your fishing sinkers are next.


13 posted on 09/03/2008 7:31:55 AM PDT by therut
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To: toast

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E6DD133EF935A15757C0A9649C8B63


14 posted on 09/03/2008 7:32:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: KarlInOhio

no no no murcury would be better.


15 posted on 09/03/2008 7:33:32 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: KarlInOhio

no no no murcury would be better.


16 posted on 09/03/2008 7:33:41 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: therut

so are our bullets..


17 posted on 09/03/2008 7:36:16 AM PDT by rahbert
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To: facedown

Cost, and I find it hard to believe that they actually pollute the environment.


18 posted on 09/03/2008 7:36:23 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Red Badger
How have people survived drinking Colorado water for thousands of years? The water table runs through these lead invested areas.

How do Texans, Louisiana, and Oklahomans live with all that oil in their water table? We are all gonna die, I tell you. You don't see any polar bears in Texas do you?

19 posted on 09/03/2008 7:37:34 AM PDT by chuckles
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So what are they going to do about Leadville? The place high up in the mountains, it showers down lead on the rest of the country ... Lead is everywhere in Leadville.

The more you see, the more you realize, liberalism is a mental disease.


20 posted on 09/03/2008 7:38:09 AM PDT by Tarpon (Three things matter when selecting a President character, character and character.)
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