Perhaps Hillary got some real bad from her advisers? In the early stages of the game, many states had a huge glut of waste tires, many dumped in illegal landfills where they could (1) breed mosquitoes and spread disease and/or (2) catch on fire, in spectacular events that took weeks to extinguish. Thus from the beginning, many states wanted to find ways to recycle, burn, or somehow get rid of a few million tons of scrap tires.  

And industry was willing to oblige.

The unanticipated problem was that scrap tires are difficult to burn in a power boiler that uses coal, oil, natural gas, wood products, and so forth. The emissions, so far as I know, where never a big issue, although I'm glad that became one. But the main engineering problem was that most tires these days have woven steel belts in them.

The woven steel belts in the tires made it very difficult to split and crumb the tires very quickly, and engineers became alarmed that a big fraction of steel could get into the power boiler. They were right. The steel was clogging the slag and ash outlet on the boiler bottoms, a condition that if maintained for a while could blow up the entire unit (I am not kidding).  

So industry said "no thanks."  

Needless to say, there was a lot of eggs left on many faces, and not just Hillary's either ... nothing compared to what her husband did with his lawyering of hazardous waste dumps in Arkansas, I mean, come on get real.

Onward through the fog

This article deeply troubled me until I looked further.  When I read the letter which the supposedly demonstrates Clinton's willingness to "sacrifice" children on the altar of her "desperate" "ambition," I found only her support for a two-week TEST, NOT for final approval.

Bloomberg.com reports a statement from her office that she "takes seriously the outstanding questions about the environmental impacts, and believes that the two-week test will provide the information needed to answer those questions."

She was right... it did.  The test failed, and from what I can tell she appropriately dropped her support given the evidence.  I supect that one failed test will do far more to halt tireburning plans around the nation than all the efforts to prevent the test.

Action based on evidence -- makes sense to me.  Isn't that we want Americans to do in the face of global warming?  Obama has done far greater damage with his support of the horrendous 2005 energy bill, which Clinton opposed.  The real poison here is in the hyperbole of this article.

Don't we all wish tests were just preludes?  I would love to call up Harvard and let them know that I'm taking the LSAT as a prelude to entrance to their law school.

Unfortunately, they are not, which makes this article sound sadly like a failed campaign smear.

Yep, carefully crafted.  Imagine the eventual candidate facing these tactics in the general election.

Are copies of articles like this being stuck under windshield wipers in NH?  By Clinton haters.  It wouldn't be surprising.

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