NEED ADVICE - Starting up youth oriented car club - PLEASE READ and RESPOND(NAC)

[Benjamin Weste Pearre]

Blah.  All the country needs is _yet_ more interest in cars.

* Cars are useful, and can obviously be fun, but creating an
  organisation around the premise of burning yet more gasoline just
  seems irresponsible.

* Even if you move the noise and obnoxiousness somewhere safe, you're
  still encouraging it.  I know people who are members of certain
  youth motorsport clubs.  The youth tend to thrive as they are
  praised for their obnoxiousness, and too many of them take it with
  them into the world, even if they leave their cars behind.  Not that
  such clubs must always do this, but it seems hard to avoid.

Of course, if you're planning on trying to start a car club that
teaches responsibility, I appreciate the thought.  I have my doubts
that it will be successful given the sheer surreality of combining
social awareness with motorsports, but it can't hurt to try.

-- 
Ben Pearre          1990 200TQA          http://hebb.mit.edu/~ben