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- From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge)
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- Subject: Re: Remember ...
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:04:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.181254.3907@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <B667TB5w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> <1992Nov14.213905.4464@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov14.213905.4464@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
-
- |> Well, I've heard that VP-elect Gore has written in his book on the environment
- |> that cars are a bigger threat to the earth than nuclear weapons. And he's
- |> our new VP?? Are you ready for 4 years of Gore jokes?
- |>
- |> :-)
- |> Simon
-
- Hello, Simon,
-
- Let me join the swelling throng of those vainly urging you to
- use your hear for something other than a hatrack.
-
- Please try to get at least a few facts right in future postings
- (though I admit that two errors in only three lines takes real
- talent).
-
- Gore stated, *not* in his book, that the automobile is among the
- greatest threats to the environment we have. Not as an object,
- but in the manufacture and use therein, with all the attendant
- industries it requires.
-
- Petroleum especially comes to mind. Air pollution from the cars
- themselves. Pollution of various sorts from refineries. Oil spills.
- Toxic runoff from roads and highways. Leaks from service-station
- tanks. Old motor oil fouling sewage systems. Our endlessly growing
- dependency on imported Middle-East oil, and our corresponding loss
- in national security. All from our ceasless hunger for individual
- automobiles.
-
- Not even mentioned, because it's been cleaned up thanks to the efforts
- of bleedinghearts like myself, is the tragic mental retardation of a
- generation of city-dwellers from breathing and eating the lead-based
- exhausts from older cars burning leaded gasoline.
-
- And how about the vast mining and smelting enterprises needed to
- support the auto industry's demand for new parts? The volatiles
- from automobile paint? Auto air conditioners leaking CFCs into the
- atmosphere, damaging the ozone layer? Even, fer chrissakes, the
- HUGE piles of worn-out tires and crushed car hulks filling our
- dumps and landfills?
-
- Glass manufacture for windows and windshieds, other than the pollution
- generated to produce the power needed, seems relatively clean.
-
- Oh, and *as* an object, cars are responsible for the deaths each year
- of more Americans than died in the entire Viet Nam conflict.
-
- Despite which Bill Clinton is not afraid to ride in one. Talk about
- real heroism. Kinda puts the lie to all those Bush/Quayle apologists
- who think that Bill's war protests were a sign of cowardice...:^)
-
- Don Coolidge
-
- (Yeah, I know, cars don't kill people, people kill people. Take it
- to talk.politics.guns.)
-