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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: NO WINDSHIELD IS SAFE FROM ECO-NAGS
- Message-ID: <JMC.92Nov19215637@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:56:37
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- Here's the beginning of a Mike Royko column. I strongly recommend
- reading the whole column. At the end he suggests that Rifkin
- come to Chicago and tag his (Royko's) car. Royko's fantasies
- involve an unconventional use of a tire iron.
-
- From: clarinews@clarinet.com (Mike Royko)
- Newsgroups: clari.feature.mike_royko
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- MIKE ROYKO
- Jeremy Rifkin and his fellow environmentalists have come up with a
- wonderful idea, and I hope they pursue it with great vigor.
- Rifkin is president of an environmental group called Greenhouse
- Crisis Foundation.
- His group has banded with others to launch a nationwide program
- called ``Ticket America.''
- Their idea is to go around slapping tickets on the windshields of
- cars that they consider environmentally incorrect gas guzzlers.
- The tickets will have no legal standing. The idea is to shame the
- owners of the cars into getting rid of the gas guzzlers and buying
- vehicles that are acceptable to Rifkin and his associates.
- It's their goal to recruit enough like-minded volunteers so that they
- can ticket at least 1 million cars in the next year.
- Now, they aren't talking about some 1976 smoke-belching rust heap of
- an old Caddy or pickup truck.
- They have established standards for various types of domestic and
- foreign cars.
-
- etc.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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