Funny that - here in DC they say we are no longer meeting the pollution guidelines (and I believe them due to the number of red alert (for smog and ozone) days we have every summer) and are going to lose federal funding because of the increase in pollution caused by the number of larger vehicles on the roads around here.
But as long as those silly women (and men!) feel that they can transport their purse more safely in a larger vehicle then who am I to criticize? Of course when I am king most of those people won't be allowed to drive a shopping cart, let alone a car.... e -----Original Message----- From: Howard Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:48 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Jeep Grand Cherokee The oil dependency argument is a myth, which is why the Saudis made it clear that they won't use oil as a weapon -- the know it won't work. It didn't work in the 1970s and it won't work now, especially now since world oil reserves are larger and more diverse now than 30 years ago. As for running out of oil any time soon -- see my earlier link I posted about oil field recharging and this: http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/world-oil.dir/lynch/worldoil.html As for pollution: Actually, pollution has decreased ... this from the EPA: "Nationally, air quality concentration data taken from thousands of monitoring stations across the country has continued to show improvement since the 1980's for CO, Pb, NO2, O3, PM, and SO2. In fact, all the years throughout the 1990's have shown better air quality than any of the years in the 1980's. This steady trend of improvement resulted despite the fact that weather conditions in the 1990's were generally more conducive to higher pollution levels, such as ground-level ozone formation." http://www.epa.gov/air/aqtrnd97/brochure/highlts.html So, as there have been more and more SUVs there has been less and less pollution. Again, political correctness speaks out and falls short of the facts. H. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
