I think we should eliminate 90% of the pollutants that come out
of elected representatives mouths and the world would be a
lot cleaner place........
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luslugger [SMTP:agm@win.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 1998 11:22 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Junker Law was: 99 Dakota R/T
>
> If the elected representatives can be convinced co2 is a pollutant,
> we
> could only wonder how many other things they have wrong. The
> Indianaplis
> news paper has letters to the editor to get govt out of these areas.
> The
> only talk about gas milage is why Dale Jarrett ran out of gas.
> 400,000
> peole watching the Brickyard 400 had a good time without taking air
> samples
>
> ----------
> > From: Klaus Wilkens <klaus@buffnet.net>
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > Subject: Re: DML: Junker Law was: 99 Dakota R/T
> > Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 6:39 AM
> >
> > I love the way the Environmental Nazis and politicians throw the
> numbers
> > around. "Reduce emissions by 50%". What they don't tell you is 50 %
> of 6%
> at a
> > cost of hundreds or thousands per vehicle. Wouldn't it be great if
> the
> truth in
> > advertising and truth in lending laws applied to political
> statements ?
> >
> > They tried to force periodic emission testing on upstate NY recently
> and
> had a
> > full scale revolt going, to the point our emission tests upstate
> consist
> of a
> > visual inspection with the focus on the gas cap! About 3 years ago
> they
> tried
> > to force oxygenated fuel on upstate and had another rebellion on
> hand. It
> was
> > great to hear the politicians (Cuomo and company at the time) try to
> explain
> > why we had to use more expensive fuel that delivered less milage in
> an
> area
> > that doesn't have air quality problems! I think that fiasco lasted
> about
> a
> > month.
> >
> > I would think most reasonable people would agree that we needed to
> produce
> > cleaner vehicles after1967 but I think they have reaced the
> economical
> limit
> > long ago and should concentrate on making cars run clean longer for
> the
> bone
> > heads that don't maintain them rather than pass expensive feel good
> > requirements that accomplish little or nothing at great expense to
> the
> > consumer.
> >
> >
> > Luslugger wrote:
> >
> > > Something like 90 % of the previous emissons have
> > > been eliminated. We are now talking about reducing green house
> gasses
> > > ;translated to mean co2 or complete combustion
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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