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- From: anbo@wuee1.wustl.edu (Albrecht Jander)
- Subject: Re: new required dyno emissions tests / Re: New Gasoline Ripoff
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.230717.26897@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:07:17 GMT
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- In article <2086.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- >
- >-> Anyone who drives a internal combustion powered vehicle contributes
- >-> to the world emmisions. I am tired of all of this old car bashing as
- >
- > The largest single polluter in the world is the US Air Force.
- >Collectively, various manufacturing plants and power generation make the
- >USAF look like small potatoes. Automobiles are actually rather far down
- >on the list. The "zero emission auto" furor is mainly political.
- >Practically everyone is dependent on cars, so it brings the issues home
- >to the electorate, which usually gets screwed anyway.
-
- The auto may or may not be significant in terms of world wide polution,
- but anyone who lives in one of Americas big cities knows that auto
- emissions are a BIG problem.
-
- > There's also the raw fact that the majority of the world doesn't give a
- >rat's ass about pollution, and if the US miraculously stopped putting
- >out even a gram of pollution, it wouldn't make that much difference to
- >the world at large.
-
- The majority of the world doesn't give a rat's ass about individuals who
- don't care about reducing pollution, and if they all miraculously got
- asphixiated, it wouldn't make that much difference to the world at large.
-
- Come on, somebody has to be the first one out on the dance floor. You
- can't expect everyone else to cut down on pullution first before you will
- even consider! There is such a thing as leadership.
-
- Albrecht Jander
-
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- Peltier was a cool dude!!
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