The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken its share of lumps (and rightfully so) over the past seven Bush years, so it’s nice to see true acts of environmentalism occasionally coming from the organization.
Writing in Greenversations, the EPA’s blog, Jeffery Robichaud writes about his travels through the Midwest in a Winnebago to audit regional air-quality monitors in areas around Kansas City and St. Louis. The typically breezy nature of the region inspired one of the EPA audit team members to supplement the Winnebago’s gas-powered generator with wind energy.
And so the mobile air-monitoring laboratory recently acquired a rooftop wind turbine, becoming, as Robichaud puts it, “The Wind in the Winnebago.” When conditions are right, Robichaud writes, the turbine can charge up the Winnebago’s on-board batteries enough to power the entire mobile lab for eight hours “without a single wisp of generator exhaust.”
The addition helps the EPA team not only save on gasoline consumption but cut its own carbon footprint while on the road. Now there’s an example of an environmental agency living up to its mandate: good for you, Jeffery and team!
The Winnebago is the great environmental sin in this picture! Get with it folks, get a Euro-diesel! 40 % more efficient fossil fuel burning characteristics by the laws of thermodynamics, supported by the high compression facts of life, over the “Spark – ignition” nonsense Americans are forced to buy and run by the Multi-national oil barons that don’t like oil gluts because it interferes with their dividend checks! One day, when Yankee Doodle wises up, he will be a happy boy, until then, go V – 8 gasoline hog wild and feed champagne to the OPEC folks that brought you the Chevrolet, Exxon/Mobile, and 16 mpg “Land cruiser chariots” Suckkers! I betcha even Bugs Bunny is laughing at you!