"Capt. JG" wrote in news:136jlgltl9kpd89
@corp.supernews.com:

http://www.hikersforcleanair.org/papers/2cycle.html

"the 2-cycle gasoline engine has not been improved significantly since it
was introduced in the 1940’s. 2-cycle gasoline engines, which take in
fuel and emit exhaust in the same stroke, still dump from 25-30% of their
fuel unburned directly into our environment. 2-stroke engines also emit
particulates in amounts up to 45 times greater than diesel engines."

The Greenies have their facts all screwed up. I used to own an Elto 1hp
little outboard my grandfather gave me for Christmas with a beautifully-
rebuilt oak rowboat when I was 8. (I could hardly see over the bow from
the tiller!) Two stroke engines go back a lot further than 1940!

Look out over your lake. Do you see it? Do you see that 4 ft thick
coating of Quaker State SAE 30 floating on top from a hundred years of 2-
stroke boating mixed 15:1 with the tractor gas from my grandfathers hand-
pumped tank in the garage? No, look closer, again! What? You don't see
it? Well, look again! Do you see even a little oil sheen? I dumped a
lot of 2-stroke, 15:1 gas in there trying to fuel the little Elto's top
tank in the lake with the waves sloshing me around. It's gotta be there!
Oh, come on! There must be SOME evidence of the time I lost the new gas
can with 1 gallon of gas/oil overboard when a wake threw both of us in
the drink! The slick that came up from the sunken tank was HUGE! My
clothes were ruined! I was the laughing stock of all my grandfather's
fishing buddies, who unfortunately for me were all sitting on the patio
when I finally ROWED back to his dock gasping for breath!

Well, that's crazy! Where'd it all go?! What? You mean it EVAPORATED?!

You're as crazy as I am!

Larry
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