Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> In Germany, when they want to keep a lake clean, they ban motorcrafts,
> but still let people still swim.  Here in california, they ban the
> swimmers, but let the motorcrafts run...

  Well, there's clean and there's clean.  Do you want to swim in oil
(which has additives), E. Coli and its mates, neither, or both?  ;-)
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.