[BMWCSRegistry] Water & Coupe + Political Commentary of Fuel

[Art Wegweiser]

Scott,
If you live in South Florida then rain seems to come with the 
territory - not to mention hurricanes.
Here in NW PA we seem to get just the right amount of rain - the West 
doesn't get enough and other parts of our Nation get too much.  Even 
without wildfires, earthquakes, landslides, tornadoes and volcanoes, 
this is not paradise - we do get a blizzard now and then. People from 
CA and FL would not like them.
I am not that concerned about rain but I am about road salt. That 
will eat the life out of a Coupe in months. I even avoid that dry 
white dust on the road before a good Spring rain gets rid of it

Sweet corn here is now down to $2 a dozen - apparently the government 
mandated ethanol fiasco hasn't hit here yet. Our hard working local 
farmers produce food and feed - not bonanzas for midwest corporate 
agriculture that pushed this through. Even solid GOP Texas is 
bitching because of diversion of corn from feed for their livestock. 
Amazing when your own people bite you in the ass!

A much more efficient source of Ethanol is sugar cane but we tax the 
hell out of it from South America to  protect giant Conagra and ADM - 
maybe a few small independent farmers who are left.  So much for 
competition.

Besides, BMW has repeatedly warned than Ethanol will destroy the 
rubber hose lines on our older vehicles.

Art

At 6:34 PM -0400 8/7/08, SDuval at trialgraphix.com wrote:
>I was wondering if I was the only "wimp" who doesn't drive his coupe in the
>rain?  All this talk of how to deal with downpours, and all I keep thinking
>is that I seldom pull out Frances in the summer here in South Florida
>because of fear of the tin worm!  I even got a dehumidifier once upon a
>time, but never used it in the garage.
>
>Things like engines & transmissions are easy problems to solve relative to
>rust repair...  Am I crazy to worry about a rust problem at this level??
>
>Scott Duval
>'73 CS Frances
>

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