<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" class="">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Selective blindness? California's not exactly been an exception when I've been there. </span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Lived there until I was 32, and pumped enough gas just for myself to drive 300,000 miles. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yea, there are shitty stations, but usually that is a function of the neighborhood, not the pumps. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or it is an issue with the maintenance of the cars (leaking oil and fluids, which happens a lot) -again not really an issue of people spilling at the pumps. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My mother has lived there her whole life (60+), and I don’t ever see her car with a gasoline spill stain around her filler-cap door. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">yea, it’s anecdotal, but it’s my impression. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d worry more about the spills in the bathroom…. Those seem more hazardous >< </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>