Quite OT: NYTimes.com Article: TV Ads Say S.U.V. Owners Support Terrorists

[Rabbit16v@attbi.com (Rabbit16v)]

Just curious, how is electric motor cars harmful to the environment?

Hydrogen is interesting but at the same time, wouldn't we all be driving
around in rivers of exhaust?

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: RE: Quite OT: NYTimes.com Article: TV Ads Say S.U.V. Owners Support
Terrorists


> If it weren't about money it would be easy to make a combustion engine
that
> got 90+ mpg without any electronic assistance and was still powerful.
> Unfortunatly everybody thinks combustion is evil and thinks electric cars
> will save us and don't realize that building an eletric car is more
harmful
> to the environment than using a combustion based vehicle.
>
> Now, I am interested to see what can be done with hydrogen, that would
mean
> clean and powerful and then you wouldn't have to pay so much for a
> musclecar.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Pieper [mailto:rapieper@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:19 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Quite OT: NYTimes.com Article: TV Ads Say S.U.V. Owners
> Support Terrorists
>
>
> --- Neal Tovsen <nealtovsen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I thought I'd post this since it has been a hot issue
> > in the past. Whether you agree with it or not, it sure
> > does make you think, eh?
>
> It makes me think that the fucking liberals running the media, esp. the
> NYT, have scary power.
>
> WHY didn't they start their bitching when PICKUP TRUCKS - certainly
> higher fuel consumers than SUV's - became the largest selling passenger
> vehicles in the US?  I sell a hell of a lot more empty bed pickups than
> I do one passenger SUVs.  Tell me *they* are more practical and consume
> less fuel per man-mile!  Ha!  This is a typical liberal-dumbocrat
> selective attack.
>
> And *we* can't talk either.  Outside of Drew, name one of us who
> SPECIFICALLY aimed and succeeded at making his/her car *more* fuel
> efficient and less polluting?  Who drives conservatively?  All I see is
> no cat, big engine swap, 0-60 and 1/4 mile times...I'll offer that it's
> hypocritical for us to agree with this NYT crap.
>
> Freedom of choice, keep the government OUT of my wallet and OUT of my
> garage.
>
>
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