Outlaw Your Lead?

Do any of the politicians look at the big picture? Lead melts around 300 degrees, tungsten at 3000 degrees. What effect would a switch form lead to tungsten have on energy consumption and global warming? How many loons would that cost?

John

Reading this makes me feel like the Native American standing on a hill overlooking a valley of trash.

I simply cannot believe there are so many of you with so little regard for our Mother Earth.

Dave;
What do we do?
To what year should we return our way of life?
Should we go back 100 years? 500 years? 1000 years? I don’t know what the answer is.

I don’t agree with poluting our planet. However there is “commonsense” and there is an “acceptable limit” to what we can do.

Lead is a polutant without dispute. But to what level does it have to reach to be a polutant?

Also, is basic lead in our water a pollutant and contaminate, or is it inert?

Read Dave’s User Profile….

I run the pro-staff for a bass tackle company that chose to go lead free when they started 5 years ago. They use bismuth instead, and while there is added cost due to materials, in a 1/2oz bass jig it is $0.25 extra. We are also against going lead free, but opted to go this route as there were already areas with lead bans as well as the talk at the time about doing it here. The nice thing about bismuth it is not as expensive as tungston, and relatively similar in density to lead. Most people can’t tell the difference if you had 2 1/2oz jigs next to each other.

So lets take that $0.25 increase it costs that the manufacturer will have to add to manufacture this product. Since distributor and stores use straight percentages (most any way) then the added percentage will be much more then a $ 0.25 increase by the time the consumer purchases this product.

For example if there is a $0.25 increase and the distributor adds 40% to just the increase then that comes out to be a $0.10 increase. The store adds 40% to their cost and that comes out to be another $ .14 Just the increase in $0.25 production costs are more already then you can buy jigs for right now even though the manufactures are only seeing the actual cost. Also keep in mind that this is based just off the “increase” of production using $ 0.25 and not the cost of the jig to begin with.

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I simply cannot believe there are so many of you with so little regard for our Mother Earth.

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please bestow upon us feeble minded destroyers of the earth your vast intellect, ideas and answers too which none other than your noble self could dream.

please help us to understand, to repent are evil ways oh great and all knowing.

If all this lead in our waters – being deposited at an unbelievable rate and building…..building,….building in our water water systems is killing loons, then it stands to reason that the loons should be dying at an alarmingly increasing rate.

With the abnormal amount of hours (not that any of us are abnormal) that the people on this site spend on the water, we, as a group, should be witnessing huge numbers of dead loons each season.

How many people on this site see lots of dead loons?

Tim

bigshooter, DaveB is one of a kind. It was a couple years ago when this lead banning came up and he made quite a stir then.

Go to his post…then click on his name, his user profile will come up…If you read his profile…he will bestow upon you the knowledge of the all knowing.