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

[Benjamin Weste Pearre]

On 2004-03-02, Phil Payne wrote:
> > * Cars are useful, and can obviously be fun, but creating an
> >   organisation around the premise of burning yet more gasoline just
> >   seems irresponsible.

> It's gonna get burned anyway.  It's much better to teach people how
> to set up an engine for efficiency.  I get annoyed with the blanket
> association of "old car = environmental disaster area".  All my
> Audis are set up for low emissions, and if I ever see any oil being
> burnt, I fix it.

Good point.  Teaching people how to take good care of their cars is
always worthwhile.  My argument was not so much "old car =
environmental disaster area" as "motorsport = environmental disaster
area".  Indeed, old cars can be good simply because cars are hard to
recycle.  The truth of this is the real tragedy: new cars don't have
appreciably better mileage than old ones.

Cheers!
-Ben

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