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- From: sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund)
- Subject: Re: Hot rods & clunkers (Was: Eth Bl Gas ... )
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.213614.7371@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- References: <1992Nov16.160302.8822@infonode.ingr.com> <221@mogun.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:36:14 GMT
- Lines: 69
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- In article <221@mogun.UUCP> dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.160302.8822@infonode.ingr.com>, greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz) writes:
- >> dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul) in a flaming rant spews:
- >>
- [ stuff delted throughout ]
-
- >> > Excuse me but, why in the hell would a car nut want to look like
- >> > one of YOU eco-nazis? ...
- >>
- >> > ... Oh let me guess, we "car people" are pissing you eco-nazis because ...
- >
- >I'm paranoid because these eco-policies ARE sucking in hotrods/restored
- >cars.
- >
- >You are an eco-nazi you're one of the ones that trys to quiet (so called)
- >fanatics like me by saying: oh I'm not an eco-nazi so just trust me when
- >I say if you are quiet it"ll all go away.
- >
- >Seems to me that's just what they told the Jews before Hitler came to
- >power, hence the name eco-NAZI!!
- >
- >
- >Now we (hotrodders/restorers) aren't going to lose our lives
- >to the EPA like the Jewish people did (if I've offended anyone by this
- >comparison I am sorry) but we will lose not only a lot of fun from our
- >lives but also a very small part of freedom and I don't think we
- >can afford to lose any of that.
- >
- besides, where would children growing up be able to see a part
- of their history - sure, you can go to car museums, but thats not
- the same a seeing one driving around, hearing it, admiring it,
- etc, and dreaming that one day, you too could have one.....
-
- >
- >> I want to make the problem smaller. If the problem is smaller, then
- >> the eco-fanatics will not be able to get their crushing new anti-car
- >> laws passed (as easily). Over 97% of the pollution will have been
- >> wrung out of the IC engine by the year 2000. That's not good enough
- >> for them. They want more. HELL, if 97% is good, 99% must be twice
- >> as good - they spout. (It doesn't matter to them that it adds hundreds
- >> more to the cost of new cars.)
- >
- >Oh my God!! We actually agree on something!!!!!!
- >
- >
- >> Well, then fight to keep them whole - but not on the roads.
- >> I would think that wrecking yards would like this plan. The purchased
- >> cars could be free inventory. They wouldn't have to buy them until sold.
- >> This is called a consignment sale. Everybody wins.
- >
- >> > What about the restorers that want to keep their cars absolutely stock?
- >>
- >> I'm talking about bringing cars up to stock specs. Modifying a car to
- >> make it cleaner than new doesn't make economic sense. This is another
- >> example of paranoia at work. Nowhere was cleaner-than-stock mentioned,
- >> yet you somehow latched on to that idea.
- >
- >No, I did not, I was only making sure that I understood you correctly.
- >Now who's paranoid?
- >
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