[elky] Re: Truck Discussion (and urea injection)
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:44:18 -0400
Well the urea for commercial and trucks is made from
synthetic Ammonia and massive amounts of CO2. I'm guessing no one looked at
the overall picture of what the production of the Urea releases into the
enviorment. Looks like a money making deal for someone but no any cleaner in
the end.
Robert Adams
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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