[elky] Re: Truck Discussion (and urea injection)

  • From: Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:27:17 -0400

It is bizarro... one of those items you read and go "wait, urea, really?"

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>  I'm debating new versus used, the older trucks are holding their value,
>> but that may be due to the fact that the newer models have more emissions
>> equipment (but not urea injection, that GM and Ford have).
>>
>  I was ok until I got to the "urea injection" part.  I'm not even gonna
> make a bad joke about it pissing me off or anything.  I just COULD not
> believe that anyone would get to the point of buying a canister of refined
> urine.  Then I checked into it a bit deeper and found that over 100 million
> tons of synthetic urea per year are produced world wide.  And finally, I
> came to this article:
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773508,00.html which
> claims that cows not only eat it and get fat on it, but that they actually
> LIKE it.  The article does mention that unless ya got 4 stomachs like a cow,
> it's probably not really good for ya.
>
> Stranger than fiction.  Stranger than science fiction.  Almost as strange
> as "Soylent Green."
>
> r
>
>

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