tinydancer
Diamond Member
\LOL, Oh the hysterical right wing has its pantie's all in a knot.
First of all, it's a felony because that's the law.
That certainly makes me feel better, but it fails the Turing test.
Second, it's dangerous. Gas mixed with methane gas in a closed environment has the potential to explode.
You should ask your programmer to put in some info about chemistry, gasoline vapors mixed with methane cannot spontaneously explode.
Third, it drains into rivers, rivers which use to catch fire before it became illegal to do so and harms the environment.
Rivers used to catch fire before it was illegal to to light rivers on fire?
Finally, some industries would continue to dump toxic and volatile substances into rivers, sewers, lakes and oceans if it were only a misdemeanor. Felonies carry much greater fines and longer periods of confinement.
This is not an industry, it is a single guy who dumped a few gallons of gas into a storm drain.
I don't get a warm and fuzzy over the EPA having the ability to charge "joe average fool " with an envirocrime. Albeit, Wang was stupid to do this, but the EPA hunting him like this is outrageous.
I don't like that at all.