For the person that had their tires slashed

[DR.billZ]

Borrowed from another site. Supposedly this is from the Pa. Dept of Environment:
It takes 2,039 gallons of water to process 4 tires for your vehicle....

it takes 39,000 gallons of water in the manufacturing process to make a car plus 4 tires....



Those environmentalists that slash tires are wasting more natural resourses than any Excursion ever could [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[bpetrie]

Shame they dont see it that way......great post by the way!

[coldair]

I wonder if that makes a differnce to them, I need to follow up as it cost me 4300.00 that day

[Flywheel]

How is using this water wasted?

It is probably just cooling water for the molds and is treated and dumped back into a stream......

[MotionMan]

"Treated and dumped back into a stream" they may capture 50% of the water used and I would bet that water is not very quality water and could be even worse reintroduced back into the enviornment. By the way...who side are you on here?? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[DR.billZ]

I'd be willing to bet most of the water is reused... but it makes some good ammunition to use [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Flywheel]

Well - I'll tell you one thing - I despise people that vandalize. Period. And when it comes to activists using low-class, behind the back, out of sight ways to try to get thier point across - it ticks me off even more. For one - it is a personal assault against you, because these are things that youwork for, buy, own, maintain, and use to do the things you want to do. When some low-life scum comes along and slashes your tires - that takes away from you - financially, mentally, and time-wise. Toatally uncalled for - they should find the person, and put 'em in jail, bottom line, end of story. That person does not play well with others.

Second - who can take a crazed activist seriously. There is nothing wrong with differing opinions - it's how things get better in our world. But whining and slashing tires? That is what kids do on the playground. A well thought-out, logical, fact-based arguement will win everyday - why take it out on others???

Lastly, you are correct, slashed tires will end up in a landfill, get burnt, and destroy the rainforest - so shame on that guy. If he wants to make a point, post a little note, stick it on the windshield with a phone number - be accountable, at the least - if not - the guy should just get back in his electric car, and know that he is doing his part.

Slashing tires because you are against SUVs is like killing cows because you hate ice cream or maybe on a more sensitive note, burning a church another person's religion because you don't agree with their ideology.

Whew...

On a lighter note - my background is in Civil Engineering - don't do it, but kind of have the mentality. I'm in the process temperature control industry as well. When I think of wasting water, I think of taking it from a useable source and making it unuseable - for the population or environment. Many of these companies are not only federally mandated to self treat, but also have many initiatives on thier own like ISO-1400 (Environment, Safety, and Health) to reduce the use of natural resources (water, fuel, electricity). Many companies have very large recirculating cooling towers that can reduce the need of pulling from streams or a cities water supply to help out. And many companies are involved in programs to replenish the environment (like lumber companies).

What people like tire slashers don't understand is 1) thier actions are of no consequence to tire manufacturers or SUV manufacturers 2) they are missing the bigger picture of how our society works - we all live in a pretty balanced ecosystem of suppliers and consumers (large manufacturing facilities and people that eventually end up with the products from the sourcing (mining, farming, and lumbering) to the refinement (slaughtering, refining, etc) to the distrubution and sale to the consumption and disposal of products.

Sure there are many areas that can be improved to clean up mother earth - but it ain't gonna happen all at once. Our civilization has made the most dramtic imrovements in technology over the past century of living on earth for a few thousand years - and this guy thinks he is going to fix the earth by slashing a few tires????

We all support big industry, the depletion of natural resources, and the contamination to the ozone to some extent - some more than others - it's called living. The only person I would let slash my tires is a naked woman that lives in the woods and uses nothing that she didn't make herself...and actually, I'd pay to see that [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img]
Oh, yeah, I'm on the side of good [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img].

(Ok, who's up next, I need some water....)