BTW, the "carbon footprint" of a new vehicle is far greater than the
carbon footprint of an old one and with modern cars, it takes about
60,000 miles of driving that "new" car before it zeros out. The whole
reason for these various schemes to get older, ostensibly more
polluting vehicles off of the road is to force you to buy a new one.
This legislation was strongly lobbied for by the auto industry Which
has thrown billions at this all over the country. So, like everything
else in government today, it's special interest legislation, bought
and paid for. And if you think that the medical and insurance lobbies
are gonna let some kind of universal government-funded healthcare get
adopted in this country, then you have another 'think' coming.
Oh, yes, and this "global Warming" fiasco has severely shaken my
belief in the integrity of the scientific community.
George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Richard C. Wagner wrote:
Will wrote:
Was anyone else as sickened by this as I was?
Yes. But then, I've been sickened every day for the past 20 years,
so it's become a normal part of waking up.
You use stuff until it needs to be rebuilt, and you keep using it
until
it can't be rebuilt anymore. This is called Thrift, which me and my
kind
were brought up to believe was even closer to godliness than
cleanliness
was.
Amen, brother. My parents grew up on the farm, during the
depression, so it's a mantra I also repeat every day. The problem
is that the country's economy is now based on continuous consumption
of products that were once durable, but are now considered by their
manufacturers to be disposable.
What in God's name is
accomplished by destroying a perfectly useful machine of any kind?
Deliberately rendering it useless? I'm sorry. y'all, but this is dead
against the religion I was raised up in
Think about it for a minute. If all of these vehicles were put onto
the used car market, through auction or direct resale, the market
would have become flooded and used car prices would have dropped.
So whose idea was this? Four letters: NADA (National Automobile
Dealers Association). Not the Government's, not the politicians',
but the people who sell cars. Money talks. Citizens walk.
Rich Wagner
Montrose, CO, USA
'82 GTV6 --
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