Comments on: Yep, it’s the environmentalists http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/ Welcome to RV Weekly where the editor of RV Trade Digest will be updating you on the latest news, trends, and products important to the RV industry. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:38:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jerry Moore http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2206 Jerry Moore Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:29:44 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2206 I retired last year and my wife and I bought a 2007 Flaggstaff camper about a month ago. We have not used it yet. It's been parked in our driveway while we get it ready for travel. I'm a very healthy, athletic 60 year old and I've never had any respiratory problems...ever...until now. I can't stay in the camper for more than 10 minutes without my sinus passages burning. After I leave the camper, my nose runs and the burning continues for a good 15 minutes. The camper has been open and ventilating for nearly a month. We normally have the bathroom exhaust fan running when we're in the camper. I'm not a liberal or an enviromentalist, just a guy who's beginning to wonder if I'm going to be able to spend a whole night in my new camper. I retired last year and my wife and I bought a 2007 Flaggstaff camper about a month ago. We have not used it yet. It’s been parked in our driveway while we get it ready for travel. I’m a very healthy, athletic 60 year old and I’ve never had any respiratory problems…ever…until now. I can’t stay in the camper for more than 10 minutes without my sinus passages burning. After I leave the camper, my nose runs and the burning continues for a good 15 minutes. The camper has been open and ventilating for nearly a month. We normally have the bathroom exhaust fan running when we’re in the camper. I’m not a liberal or an enviromentalist, just a guy who’s beginning to wonder if I’m going to be able to spend a whole night in my new camper.

]]> By: milton stevens http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2096 milton stevens Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:23:47 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2096 My father started our business in RV's and manufactured housing 50 years ago. The formaldahyde issue surfaced in mobile homes in the late 70's and early 80's. It burned your eyes, especially on a hot day in a model home with no ventalation. If it caused health problems, surely I would have them by now. The result of the issue was and still is that we have to warn our customers that formaldahyde may be present in the home. We have to get a document signed by the customer concerning possible side effects such as burning eyes. I have yet to read where the liberal press ever mentions the parts per million necessary to be toxic. The Fed's(HUD)have established a maximum level of famaldahyde in manufactured housing. RV manufacturers are not regulated by a federal entity in order to establish a maximum level of famaldahyde exposure. The level in a camper is not toxic unless burning eyes and alergies fall under the toxic category. It takes a much larger quantity than what is in the campers to become a problem. The only thing you hear is that campers have a toxic chemical which is the term they use to scare everyone. They do not say that all OSB and plywood products throughout the home building business contain formaldahyde. Evacuate all homes. What about the toxic effects of exhaust fumes from a car in downtown New York. They can kill you. Why don't they go after the auto industry because of toxic fumes they emit in the air. Only because the government regulates exhaust emmissions. The next thing we will see if the class action does not put us out of business is government regulated manufacture of RV's. The liberal legal profession pursues every opportunity to mass a class action, no matter how trivial the action may be. They are hoping for a liberal judge and jury. There has never been a successful class action in the U.S. concerning side effects of formalhyde in building materials according to my attorney who represents most manufactured housing manufacturers in my area. He is also my stepson. Let's hope that this class action is not successful. My father started our business in RV’s and manufactured housing 50 years ago. The formaldahyde issue surfaced in mobile homes in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It burned your eyes, especially on a hot day in a model home with no ventalation. If it caused health problems, surely I would have them by now. The result of the issue was and still is that we have to warn our customers that formaldahyde may be present in the home. We have to get a document signed by the customer concerning possible side effects such as burning eyes. I have yet to read where the liberal press ever mentions the parts per million necessary to be toxic. The Fed’s(HUD)have established a maximum level of famaldahyde in manufactured housing. RV manufacturers are not regulated by a federal entity in order to establish a maximum level of famaldahyde exposure. The level in a camper is not toxic unless burning eyes and alergies fall under the toxic category. It takes a much larger quantity than what is in the campers to become a problem. The only thing you hear is that campers have a toxic chemical which is the term they use to scare everyone. They do not say that all OSB and plywood products throughout the home building business contain formaldahyde. Evacuate all homes. What about the toxic effects of exhaust fumes from a car in downtown New York. They can kill you. Why don’t they go after the auto industry because of toxic fumes they emit in the air. Only because the government regulates exhaust emmissions. The next thing we will see if the class action does not put us out of business is government regulated manufacture of RV’s.
The liberal legal profession pursues every opportunity to mass a class action, no matter how trivial the action may be. They are hoping for a liberal judge and jury.
There has never been a successful class action in the U.S. concerning side effects of formalhyde in building materials according to my attorney who represents most manufactured housing manufacturers in my area. He is also my stepson. Let’s hope that this class action is not successful.

]]> By: Matt Kortman http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2095 Matt Kortman Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:22:05 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2095 "Isn’t it interesting how these manufacturers had time to import materials over the ocean from Malaysia...with long-term, serious health issues." Careful Greg. Your sarcastic comments will probably show up as a serious quote in the next press release under the headline "Noted RV Expert Confirms Existence of Vast Katrina RV Conspiracy." “Isn’t it interesting how these manufacturers had time to import materials over the ocean from Malaysia…with long-term, serious health issues.”

Careful Greg. Your sarcastic comments will probably show up as a serious quote in the next press release under the headline “Noted RV Expert Confirms Existence of Vast Katrina RV Conspiracy.”

]]> By: Gene Seider http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2093 Gene Seider Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:34 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2093 Thanks for publishing some more of this hot story. But, in my view, the RV bashing will continue until, and only until, the RV Industry mounts a serious investgative effort to substantiate what everyone already knows, and that is that the problem with the TTs is should not result in anyone pointing fingers at the RV Manufacturers, but at the the folks who are live in almost squalid conditions. My point is that very few, if any, of the millions of folks who own and enjoy their RV lives in it 24 hours a day with little, if any, outside ventilation. Now is the time for the RV Industry to dig out the facts and get them into print. The longer the Industry stands still, the deeper the hole will become and the harder it will be to dig out. Thanks for publishing some more of this hot story. But, in my view, the RV bashing will continue until, and only until, the RV Industry mounts a serious investgative effort to substantiate what everyone already knows, and that is that the problem with the TTs is should not result in anyone pointing fingers at the RV Manufacturers, but at the the folks who are live in almost squalid conditions.

My point is that very few, if any, of the millions of folks who own and enjoy their RV lives in it 24 hours a day with little, if any, outside ventilation.

Now is the time for the RV Industry to dig out the facts and get them into print. The longer the Industry stands still, the deeper the hole will become and the harder it will be to dig out.

]]> By: William Conway http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2091 William Conway Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:24:41 +0000 http://www.rvtradedigest.com/interactive/2007/08/21/yep-its-the-environmentalists/#comment-2091 Great article. Great article.

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