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- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!cherokee!greg
- From: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Subject: Re: Hot rods & clunkers (Was: Eth Bl Gas ... )
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.123141.2123@infonode.ingr.com>
- Lines: 39
- Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Reply-To: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Organization: Dazix, An Intergraph Company
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:31:41 GMT
-
- harling@miki.pictel.com (Dan Harling) wrote:
- > greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz) writes:
- > >Famous argument; 'Takes energy to make a new car
- > >I have never seen a definitive comparison
-
- > Nor have I, but I suspect that the pollution created in scrapping an
- > old car and manufacturing a new one would equal that generated by a
- > well-maintained older car for a significant number of years. Even
- > apart from the pollution due to material usage, consider the amount of
- > energy expended in manufacturing and machining.
-
- What's significant? One? Ten? It's just a guess until someone runs
- the numbers.
-
- > >...a new Crown Vic. It's a gas-hog next to a Saturn, but it is
- > >a fuel-misor next to a smoke-belching mid-seventies piece of V8 iron.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > This is obviously a stereotype; at least, "smoke-belching mid-seventies
- > piece of V8 iron" sounds more like a prejudice to me than a
- > qualification.
-
- It might be a stereotype to some people, but my usage here was deliberate.
- I'm not interested in seeing all older cars removed. Only
- "smoke-belching mid-seventies piece of V8 iron.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- > At this very minute, someone out there is thinking, "is there
- > *any other kind* of old car?"
-
- That is because there *are* so many smoke-belching ...
-
- Like I said, if those can be removed, the pressure on the rest of us, who
- maintain our older cars will be lessened.
-
- > Nevertheless, I am completely in agreement with the strategy of
- > providing incentives to get those old cars that *do* belch smoke either
- > repaired or off the road, so that they no longer give a bad name to the
- > older cars that the rest of us maintain in top condition.
-