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- From: greg@gregm.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Subject: Re: ... why I don't recycle
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.122939.24708@b11.b11.ingr.com>
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- Reply-To: greg@gregm.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Organization: Dazix, An Intergraph Company
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:29:39 GMT
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- Eric Huppertz (ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) in a paranoid frenzy wrote:
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- : So where are these miraculous systems? Are they installed in our
- : automobiles, reducing our fuel consumption and air pollution output?
- : Of course not. You know as well as I do where they are: In the
- : vaults of the world's major oil companies. That's right, build a
- : better carburetor and Exxon will beat a path to your door. I can't
- : imagine how rich the developers of these super-effient systems must
- : be, now that the oil corporations bought their ideas and stapled
- : their mouths shut with platinum stapleguns.
-
- So, do you mean to tell me that the Japanese, who import well over
- 99 percent of their oil have not been able to duplicate the 100 mpg
- carburetor that you insist exists? How about a 75 mpg unit?
-
- The Germans don't seem to be able to come up with any such wundercarbs
- either. Do you really believe that Exxon has the power and money to
- shut down every attempt at building such beasts in not only the US,
- but those countries?
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- If such things existed, those nations (with no domestic oil industry
- to protect) would be building and exporting and kicking our domestic
- auto industry's butts with them RIGHT NOW.
-
- Eric. He lives by the .sig that I saw once:
-
- You're not paranoid. They *are* out to get you.
-
- : the garbage can. Same with newspapers, bottles, plastic jugs,
- : you name it. I say, into the trash with it.
-
- Well, at least you're not a litter bug.
-