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Subject:Re: I'll bite on the diesel---safety and getting flipped off
From:Jim Felder
Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:44:28 -0600

On Dec 14, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Jeff Lincoln wrote:

> "So, are our cars not only ruining our environment.."
>
> This reminds me - Yesterday my boss told me that "We can't fix the
> environment/global warming so we aren't the cause of it". Can you
> belive
> that? I said "Ok, well I am going to go out and take a sledge
> hammer to your
> Chrysler 300m and I won't be able to fix it. So therefore I didn't
> do it". I
> know it was a childish analogy but the original comment was so
> short sighted
> and stupid that it was warranted. Anyhow......

Best analogy I've hear yet. I know this has been used before, too,
but how many BTUs am I saving by recycling my two old Vanagons? Like
I could afford a new one and like VW still makes them, but it's a
rationalization I enjoy.

Jim

>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> 90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful, It needs a lot of work)
> 86' (Soon to be donating organs to the 90')
> 85' GL (sidelined but to be resurrected in the near future)
>