"RightEagle" wrote in message
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The press release should be treated with extreme skepticism, since its
real purpose is to help sell the issuing company's own, purportedly
environmentally friendly wax: "Enviro Mountain Sports, Inc. is now
actively promoting the use of environmentally friendly ski & snowboard
waxes. Barker explains, that they have developed an all natural
alternative to the toxic chemical waxes." Also note that the company
repeatedly points out that most waxes are imported from -- horrors --
foreign countries.

Joe Ramirez

Yes, Barker is actively promoting the use of environmentally friendly
ski & board waxes.

The potential of 2.8 million pounds is based on a 60 million skier
vsits in North America, and the 2.8 million pounds is based on that
amount of wax. The reason is that the wax alone is toxic and becomes
even more toxic when other chemicals are added. The wax base of most
ski wax is made from Crude Oil and Petroleum By Products.

So, if you could use a wax that is made from plants grown by farmers
from around the world, wouldn't that be better than;

1. Drilling for more off shore oil.
2. Drilling in our pristine wilderness areas.
3. And yes, importing more petroleum into your country where ever you
reside. It is not good for any economy to import more petroleum
products
in their country. It doesn't matter where you reside.
4. Contributing to Global Warming. The more petroleum based products
that are used, the the worse the global warming problem will become

That's a pound of wax for 20 "skier visits". Really?

I can't find my shovel. Has anyone seen my shovel?