Werner,
Thank you very much for making my point better than I did... You are going
to have to overcome years of this kind of misinformation and junk science to
get to the common man who votes on a regular basis. The way to turn this
tide is to get them "informed", through any means possible that doesn't make
you sound like you're trying to buck common "tribal knowledge". You have to
hit them in the places they know best - like television and radio news that
doesn't pander to one ideology or the other, so you get a fair rendering of
your argument. The only non-aligned TV or radio network that comes to mind
is the public radio and TV stations here in the States. However, they do
tend to be on the "green" side of things so logical arguments presented via
that media may even come under attack from those that offer to present the
facts.

I'm not saying that this can't be turned back through massive requests for
exemption by every industry. In fact, that's a pretty good ploy until your
stockholders get the word that you're "not green". 

Has anyone attempted to point either National Public Radio or affiliated TV
stations toward John's Push Back website? If you're going to attack this
thing and kill it, we need to take a multi-pronged stab at it.

My 0.02 Euros worth... And I'll get off my soap box now...
Dale Ritzen
Quality Manager
Austin Manufacturing Services

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Werner Engelmaier
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 3:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Get the Lead Out


Hi Dale,
Unfortunately you are citing another example of junk science pobular 
knowledge. 
"...they only know that drinking water from lead pipes (or with leaded 
solders) is bad for you."
The first part refers to the Roman aqueducts that contained lead linings and

pipes—a study I read not too long ago actually attributes the Pb-poisioning
of 
the roman nobility to the fact that they drank their wine [acitic] from 
Pb-leaching vessels [Brian, please correct me if I am wrong on this]. the
second 
one with the Pb-bearing solder used to solder copper water pipes is
definitely a 
red herring. 
In New Jersey, the copper pipes were initially replaced with PCP pipes—these

leach indefinitely, but what was worse, they sand blasted the Pb-containing 
paint off of highway bridges [how many kids have you seen chewing paint off
of a 
highway bridge?] which of course made it air-borne and thus contaminated the

backyards of people's houses close by.

Werner

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