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  • 01-01-2001 12:00 AM

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    2009 House Bill 1033 (requiring the use of alternatives to lead wheel weights)

    Introduced in the House on January 12, 2009

    The vote was 66 in favor, 28 opposed and 2 not voting

    (House Roll Call 0 at House Journal 0)

    Click here to view bill details.
  • 02-23-2009 2:37 PM In reply to

    Re: 2009 House Bill 1033 (requiring the use of alternatives to lead wheel weights)

    Why are you wasting our time on such a non-issue as this?  How many people have died or even been sickened due to the use of lead in wheel weights?

  • 02-23-2009 3:45 PM In reply to

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    Re: 2009 House Bill 1033 (requiring the use of alternatives to lead wheel weights)

    People working in the manufacturing of them (many in countries without worker's rights protection), people who live in proximity to manufacturing facilities  and raw material production facilities for lead material products, and people who live in proximity of landfill and storage of such materials, and are exposed to soil and water into which the material has been leached. 

    Why use a product that contaminates through its entire life-cycle, when alternatives exist?  You might have a different opinion on this topic if you lived on property where your drinking water cam from a well and the well was down-gradient of a leaking, single-walled underground storage tank containing lead-based waste.

  • 02-26-2009 10:17 PM In reply to

    Re: 2009 House Bill 1033 (requiring the use of alternatives to lead wheel weights)

     Well you know Tom Campbell is going to run against Adam Smith for the 9th congressional district.  I like the word 'conservationist'. I deplore the word 'environmentalist'.  One is interested in preservation, the other tends to be militant in my mind...and not willing to take into consideration the unintended consequences of their legislation.

     

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