My first insane post , well maybe

[blues90]

Do you ever wonder where all the worn off tire rubber goes ? What happenes when some fellow with a gas powered high volumn blower comes along and brings this stuff to flight ?

You know you must at some point seen the hundreds of tire stores that pepper the landscape and all the treadless cases . I live where there is alot of traffic and I have black dust daily .

This is to counter the smoking threads .

[mike_c]

1. much of it contributes to aerosol pollution and ultimately to water pollution...

...when it settles back to earth. A bunch of organic compounds leach out of it.

[nam78_two]

2. If it doesn't involve breasts, genitals, cigarettes etc. it ain't colorful enough.nt

[angstlessk]

3. Good question..we know where the threads on smoking goes..but where DO

the treads on tires go? They don't just suddenly dissapear...they are SOMEWHERE?

[BuyingThyme]

4. When I was in college, all of the rubber ended

up in the screen of my apartment's front window.

[shanti]

5. so THAT'S what's on my cars!

no really. i have a white car that i park in my driveway that gets covered with a black film on a regular basis. i might add that i live a stone's throw away from a major freeway. my orange trees are also covered with this soot.

[mrcheerful]

7. That could be from 18 wheelers and their belching smoke stacks.

I lived on the major road to the local sugar beet refinery and every fall the inside of my apartment would get covered in black slit. I was dusting the place 2 and 3 times a day with little to no effect until the last sugar beet truck was put away for the winter.

[hfojvt]

6. "the surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe

I'd have another cigarette, but I can't see
tell me who you're gonna believe ..."


Well I went down to Paradise City, but my city was gone.
They'd paved Paradise and put up a parking lot
and that parking lot was littered with cigarette butts
and styrofoam cups.

I hate when that happens.

[enid602]

8. Phoenix

Here in Phoenix (and I imagine elsewhere as well) they've 'rubberized' the freeways, as rubber on rubber creates less friction than rubber on pavement. 'Hence, less 'freeway dust,' and less noisy as well.

[Tony_Illinois]

9. This is Definitely NOT Your First Insane Post. . .