Keith and all: I asked Pinzgauer about sales into Canada. Nope. I assume same applies for the US. So we are stuck.
Anyway, if someone wants a work truck to tow a bunch of cattle with or haul a ton of fuel into the bush, it's been a long while since they've been able to do it with a North American half-ton. 20 years or so, right? These things have been getting progressively lighter for a long time. Standards applied to light trucks that are really passenger vehicles with room for a couple mountain bikes and few sheets of plywood, are not going to have much of an effect on the real work truck market - those people have been buying 1 tons (or topped up 3/4's) for a long time. If the proposed standards are applied to those heavier trucks, then I agree that that's wrong. Go after the millions of "Costcoburbia" pickups, and leave the real work trucks alone so they are still reaosnably capable and do not wear out prematurely. Junkyards full of 10 year old trucks on their way to crushers are not an eco-efficient solution. BTW, has anyone got a bona fide reference to the oft-cited statement that more energy goes into the production of vehicle than will be used in it, as fuel, during its projected lifespan? I'd like to have that. I have heard it many times, but where is the reference? Edward Beggs www.biofuels.ca > From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:01:01 +0900 > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [biofuel] Re: US Senate panel can't reach deal on fuel standards > > Hi Motie > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
