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- From: dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Ethanol blended gasoline
- Summary: NOT!!!
- Message-ID: <214@mogun.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:57:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mogun.214
- References: <1992Nov10.152743.8696@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Hotrods `R' Us, Montgomery, IL
- Lines: 171
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- In article <1992Nov10.152743.8696@infonode.ingr.com>, greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz) writes:
- > walkerr@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Robert A Walker) writes:
- >
- >
- > dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul) of Hotrods `R' Us writes :
- >
- > DG> That's a far cry from the eco-nazis BS that's been used to scare
- > DG> everyone into believing that cars are evil.
- >
- > If your figures were true, yes.
-
- My figures are from the National Muscle Car Association's Muscle
- Monthly publication under our "Save the Animals" section.
-
- Where are YOUR facts from?
- AS A matter of fact where are your facts PERIOD?
-
-
-
- > People who like cars need to be able
- > to admit to the damage they do, so that they don't end up looking like
- > eco-nazi fanatics.
-
- Excuse me but, why in the hell would a car nut want to look like
- one of YOU eco-nazis?
-
- And just what damage are we terrible car lovers doing?
- Oh let me guess, we "car people" are pissing you eco-nazis because we
- are having a good time with our cars and as we all know eco-nazis
- don't want anyone to have any fun with there money.
-
- I hate to break it to all of you eco-nazis but THE SKY IS NOT FALLING!!!!!
- So go out and join the rest of the world and GET A LIFE!
-
-
- > DG> That's a really nice way to say: that's a nice hotrod you've got there
- > DG> to bad you can't have it anymore but don't worry here's $500.00 for
- > DG> your pride and joy.
- >
- > Hotrodders should fight efforts to remove well-maintained older vehicles
- > from the road.
-
- That's what I'm trying to do.
-
-
- > However, even hotrodders should be able to see the benefit
- > to removing older vehicles that are just barely making it.
-
- Once again I will say (hopefully for the last time) I never have
- said ANYTHING about keeping smoking "barely making it" cars on the
- road.
- What I'm trying to get across is, I don't want these programs that are
- ridding the road of these "smokers" to suck in the hotrod/restorer cars
- as well.
-
-
-
- > If the older vehicles are scrapped, but not crushed and melted, they could
- > provide a supply of important parts to people looking to keep up an older
- > vehicle.
-
- AHH, now we're talking, only problem is, the people that are enacting
- these programs are NOT taking the cars apart and selling there individual
- parts they ARE making these cars into BLOCKS.
-
-
- > Paranoia doesn't help anybody. These programs to buy up older cars, as
- > far as I've seen have been strictly voluntary. As soon as they try to
- > become mandatory, then you will have a case - and large numbers of
- > supporters. If events lead to mandatory confiscation of older cars, then
-
- First of all: The people that take these cars in don't know how valuable
- some of them are.
- I saw a video from CA. that showed an old Cuda being CRUSHED because
- the guy who owned it had no idea what it was worth to some Mopar lover
- that would have bought and restored it.
-
- The point of this is: when people start crushing all these old cars
- there won't be anywhere for restorers/Hotrodders to get parts for their
- pride and joy except for aftermarket businesses, who will jack up the
- prices a lot because there won't be anywhere for car owners to turn to.
-
-
- Second: Car lovers are not the people that are paranoid, it's the
- eco-nazis who seem to think the sky is falling.
-
- BTW This cause does have a LOT of supporters.
-
-
-
- > I'm confident that it would be possible to get the older cars cleaned
- > up rather than to confiscate them.
-
- What about the restorers that want to keep their cars absolutely stock?
-
-
- > In a previous article, walkerr@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Robert A Walker) says:
- >
- >
- > DG> BZZZZT!!! Did you know that in the states that these "clunker" bills
- > DG> have been enacted that some of these companies collect (so called)
- > DG> clunkers and when the companies turn these cars in these same wonderful
- > DG> companies get some kind of permit that enables them to pollute MORE.
- >
- > So you would rather let the factories close (or downsize) and lay off all
- > (or some) of their workers rather than put any restrictions on older cars?
-
- They don't have to lay off anyone all they have to do is install those
- "scrubbers" in their smoke stacks.
-
-
- > DG> Now would someone please tell me how this is helping the environment?
- >
- > Glad to. The way it works is that if a factory is putting out 100,000 units
- > of pollutants into the air, but the EPA says that they are only allowed to
- > put 80,000 units into the air, the factory has two choices:
- >
- > (2) Reduce pollution from another source. This source could be old
- > cars that put out more pollution than new cars. The factory
- > can buy up cars that put out those 20,000 units annually. The
- > amount of cars would be determined by some formula that takes
- > into account the amount of pollution that the old car puts out
- > in excess of the standard for the current year and the average
- > amount that it is driven, etc.
-
- NO no no, you don't seem to understand.
- When the factories turn in these cars they are allowed to pollute more
- than they were BEFORE.
-
-
- > From the standpoint of the city at large - the results are the same.
- > Pollution goes down by 20,000 units. Eco-nazis are happy. (*) Factory
- > workers still have their jobs. Hotrodders have a bunch of new automobiles
- > at the junk yard to scrounge. The junkyard has a bunch of new inventory.
-
- BZZZZT!!! Factories pollute more than the cars and they were polluting
- before so in effect pollution has risen, Hotrodders lose a valuable
- source for parts, and junk yards have a lot of little squares sitting around
- waiting to be melted down (which makes more pollution by the way) to
- make new cars.
-
-
- > sborders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Borders) writes:
- >
- > SB> In my opinion, we should
- > SB> concentrate first on fixing/removing those autos that pollute the most.
- >
- > DG> Well in my opinion, I think we should get rid of every polluting
- > DG> big mouth that wants to remove all of the *fun* cars from the road.
- >
- > In my opinion, we should try to avoid looking like fanatic eco-nazis.
- > Scott said fixing/removing - this implies that he is flexible. You don't
- > ^^^^^^
- > appear to have any flexibility in this matter.
-
- I am flexibleso I have to fight as hard as I can.
-
-
- > (*) Keeping in mind that eco-nazis are *never* really happy. They'll
- > just be a little more quite.
-
- Now here's something that we actually agree on. :^)
-
-
-
- |
- | David Gunsul
- | dcg@mogun.uucp
- |------------------------------------------------
- | It's amazing what $2,500 worth of big block
- | will do to $60,000 worth of high technology.
-