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Subject:Bus as polluting vehicle.
Date:Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:10:15 +1200

Hi Volks,

 Ed.McMullin Writes:
>			...  People ask me about driving
>     an old VW and how much it polutes from time to time.

   Here in NZ a Saab advert (commercial) has been shown recently that
uses a mid 70s bus as an example of an old polluting vehicle while
extolling the virtues of a Saab "Ecotec" engine that claims to exhaust
cleaner air than it intakes. I have a problem with this :-).
 I read somewhere that a third of the energy consumed by a new car
during its life is expended making it. Anyone have a source for this?
 It would be nice to have some ammunition to use against the "scrap
all old cars" brigade...

	W.

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echo Compiling unpacker for non-ascii files
pwd=`pwd`; cd /tmp
cat >unpack$$.c <<'EOF'
#include <stdio.h>
#define htoi(c) (c<='9' ? c-'0' : c-'A'+10)
main() {
	register int c, c2;
	while ((c=getchar())!=EOF) {
		if (c=='\n') continue;
		c2 = getchar();
		putchar((htoi(c)<<4) + htoi(c2));
	}
}
EOF
cc -o unpack$$ unpack$$.c
rm unpack$$.c
cd $pwd

echo x - 004pcjh '[non-ascii]'
/tmp/unpack$$ >004pcjh <<'@EOF'
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chmod 660 004pcjh

rm /tmp/unpack$$
exit 0

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