From: mba2@Rosie.UH.EDU (Puneet_S)
Subject: Re: Your Duty as an IA/American
Reply-To: mba2@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:03:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.204421.26889@wuecl.wustl.edu>, mps1@cec1.wustl.edu (Mihir Pramod Shah) writes:
>Puneet,
>       It is interesting that you stated you wouldn't vote for Clinton
>because you're in the Environmental business.  While Clinton has had
>a lackluster environmental record in Arkansas, he and especially
>Al Gore have been the greatest advocates for supporting new         
>environmental technology and industry.  They believe the environmental
>technology potential out there is GOOD for the economy, opposite of
>what Bush and even a little of Perot.  Clinton/Gore realize that
>Japan and the EC (specifically Germany) will bash our brains in like
>any other industry if we don't have some cohesive agenda on Environmental
>policy and technology.
>
>Just wanted to point it out.
>
>
>Peace...Mihir
>
The following reply is lengthy, if the Environmental business is not
your cup of tea, you may want to skip.  I needed to explain my reason
for not supporting Clinton.  The reply also is not directly to the
news group, so I must appologize in advance.

Being in the Envirornmenatl business, I also realize what is logical and
what is not.  Unfortunately the EPA and most lesgislators, who i've noticed
tend to be lawyers don't understand what they are advocating or writing.

Case in point, when a company is producing waste which contains Benzene,
they must ensure 98 % destruction efficiency of the waste regardless of
the initial concentration of the Benzene containing stream.  Example if
I have a stream containing 1 ppm Benzene which is an off-gas from a 
Building, I must bring the ppm level to .02 ppm Benzene, where as if i
have a 100 ppm Benzene stream i can bring it to 2 ppm Benzene.  Problem,
it is very difficult with current technolody to measure .02 ppm Benzene,
solution mix the 1 ppm Benzene stream with the 100 ppm stream.  This is
not considered "dilution" but if were to mix the 100 ppm stream with
say pure nitrogen or say pure natural gas and then incinerate the stream
to meet the required efficiney i would be fined for "dilution".  Now with
the above case, if the two streams are mixed disproportianly, I as a
major company can actually, minimize my incineration costs by mixing the
two waste streams prior to incineration and in the end, on a tonnage
basis put out more Benzene.  Now does that seem logical to you.  

Another case, in a system where there are waste gasses being produced, i
must ensure that these gasses are routed to a vapor recovery system.  I
don't have to measure the quantity of flow, only to show that flow to
the recovery system exists.  Problem, it's really damn difficult to 
measure 2-10 actual cfm flow in an 8" line. 

Yeah, I advocate environmental regulations.  It's good for my business.
But, some of the, in my opininon "ignorant" regulations are going to
hurt our companies and they will after NAFTA goes through completely,
actually ship their plants overseas, most probably to Mexico.  Don't 
think that Al Gore is going to do good for the country.  He's going to
hurt the country if he like every other environmentalist doesn't pay
attention to companies also.  I don't necessarily support Bush, but he
did give the Oil companies leeway and a less stringent schedule.  The 
United States actually is on the forefront of Enviromental Technology.

And, by the way, the Rio de Janero, if Bush had agrred to it would
have hurt this country immesely.  The other countries were asking us
to basically put out less emmisions than them on a percentage basis.  
(Explicative), we already put out less on a percentage basis.  I've
been to Venezuela, seen and smelt the air; it smells and feels 
worse than Deer Park or Pasadena, Texas.


>
VCD, Puneet (D-Poon) 
 
It's a 106 miles to Chicago
We have a full tank of gas
Half a pack of Cigarettes
It's dark
And we have our shades on.       
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