"Jon Woellhaf" writes:

"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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"Tom S." writes:

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
news Lower cost labor and/or outsourcing to secure orders (Japan). Not
enviornmental regulation, that's for sure.

Bull! EPA regs cost US business something like $300 bbbbillion a year in
additional overhead. Other regs (OSHA, and the endless list) account for
over $800 BILLION. Try competing with that hanging over your economy.

Far, *far* better than not being able to drink the water or breathe
the air. Environmental preservation *should* be a basic conservative
issue -- it's as vital as your next breath.

I think the problem is that some very influential people believe that only
cleanroom pure air and reagent grade water is acceptable.

That certainly *would* be a problem. But I'll tell you, the level the
air quality gets down to sometimes here in Minneapolis, with no
mountains and pretty regular prevailing winds to move it along, is
quite bad enough; I really *don't* want to know what it would be like
without catalytic converters and electronic fuel injection and oxygen
sensors on cars, and scrubbers on power stations and such.
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