> From: "The Bus Depot" <ron@netcarrier.com>

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> I indicated to the couple of people who p-mailed me about it.  Yes, the
> exhaust systems in question are already made regardless, and will be used on
> Vanagons somewhere in the world anyway, whether a U.S. resident buys them or
> whether the supplier sells them to someone in Europe (or someone else in the
> States) - so in the large-scale environmental scheme of things, it really
> doesn't matter.  The environment doesn't care whether the pollutant
> originated from a Vanagon in the U.S. or elsewhere.

Not true...in Europe, the exhaust units will replace
similar non-cat units.  No Change.  But if they were
improted into the US, each unit sold would would mean
the removal of a Cat from a vanagon, and hence an
overll increase in pollution.  Watch your right brain,
Ron, it seems willing and able to trick the left side!

>If it's not immoral to
> sell or use them in Europe, why should it be in the U.S.?
Yes, many Vanagons
> are currently in the U.S. without working cat's already.  Yes, it isn't "my
> business" if someone buys an exhaust system for "off road use" and chooses
> to use it otherwise.

Thank god you didn't adopt this line of reasoning,
which is the same reasoning drug dealers, cig makers,
cheap hand gun makers etc. use to justify their deadly
products.  The list would be reeling for weeks from the
arguments over this!