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batie@agora.rain.com (Alan Batie) writes:

>allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren) writes:
>>Additionally, there is NO salt used at all on the roadways, just sand 

>Thank goodness!  My car is 8 years old now, with 178K miles on it and
>going strong.  If they salted the roads here like they do in the east,
>I would've been forced to buy a new car by now, and I've got lots better
>things to do with my money.

"Thank goodnes!" is right!  I didn't mean to say that I was remotely 
in favor of the salt.  I'm VERY, VERY glad they don't salt around here.
When we first moved to Oregon, we had a 1984 Toyota Celica with 150k
miles on it, with most of those miles put on by my father-in-law in
his Sales job in the Boston, MA area.  When I took it through DEQ, the
techs were just shaking their heads when they read the exhaust results.
They said that the car tested out like it was brand new, even though
the body was simply rusting away.  We traded the car in two months
later because, basically, the rust was like a cancer gone rampant.

allen