Bennie,
I too think there is a problem with the "bonding" and "grounding" terms, however mine opinion is almost opposite of yours. I thing that the only time the word "grounding" should be used is for the conductor that connects to the grounding electrode. All of the other conductors that we call "grounding" are in fact "bonding" conductors. The current use of the terms often leads installers to try to connect things to "ground" when they should be bonded back to the electrical system. We are not trying to "ground" the water pipe or the other conductive objects, but we are trying to "bond" them so that if they would become energized by some accidental contact with a hot conductor, there would be a low impedance path back to the system to clear the fault. A connection to ground is not required to clear faults on building systems, but a bonding connection back to the system is.
We both should submitt proposals on this subject for the 2005 code.
Don(resqcapt19)
