[s-cars] Thought-provoking stuff.......NAC, but all Car stuff.

[Mark Strangways]

And what would Sunoco / Shell / any other oil company do for there profit.

You see, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Be it an oil company, a car company or even a government.
The US was made on oil, and there is still lots to make on it. Why allow 
something to jeopardize that ?
Maybe if I owned an oil company I would be looking at ways to distribute 
energy , not oil. But I'm not.
Maybe if I where a big American car company, I would get some diesel 
technology into some luxo cruisers, and maybe some van. I am not talking 
ford pwerstroke 1,000 CID motors, but some nice small turbo diesels with 
some fuel savings in mind. But I'm not.

Suppose I sound a bit disgruntled, I am. Too many stupid people wanting me 
to do stupid things today I suppose, but it echoes my sentiment with today's 
BIG BUSSINESS.
It's not just oil , or car companies...
We have some banks that are turning some real sick profits, all out of mine 
and others pockets, so much so I am tired of hearing about it.

Hydrogen cars are great, will we see them... I doubt we will in this decade.
$3.00 a gallon just isn't that much.
While we continue to drive 6000 lbs walls down the roads sucking 10 MPG, you 
can see where peoples priorities are. I can bet that at $6.00 a gallon or 
more the roads would free up a bit.

Talk about rail service, where the F&*% are the trains. The rest of the 
world has varying high speed rail, we barely have rail, and what we have is 
priced outta this world. Suppose lots of euro rail is all electric anyways, 
nice and green.

I think I'm stopping here. I could go on, and on, and on, but I'd rather be 
with a GOF and doing things that are JNR and even JNP.

Later
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fleischer" <jim at activelifestylemassage.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>; <urq at audifans.com>; <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 3:57 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Thought-provoking stuff.......NAC, but all Car stuff.


> Hey quattro fans,
>
> Please forgive the NAC, and also posting to the three lists I subscribe 
> to, but I saw something last night that is starting to disturb me.  Let me 
> start by saying that I am a quattroholic, currently owning a '95 S6 Avant, 
> a '91 200 TQ 20V and an '83 ur.  I've had a total of 8 Audis (7 quattros) 
> in my driving career and have loved every one of them.  That said, I just 
> watched "Who Killed the Electric Car" last night and I found it quite 
> compelling.  I also found it quite disturbing.  If you haven't watched it 
> yet, I suggest, even for entertainment sake, that you go and rent it. 
> Now, I'm not one of those "conspiracy" types, but I find it quite 
> troubling to know that we, the car buying public, are not given the option 
> of purchasing a different propulsion technology for our transportation 
> that would seem on the surface to be very economical, reliable, "emissions 
> free" (I put that in quotes on purpose....of course I know it takes either 
> nuclear, natural gas or coal to make the el
> ectricity to charge the damn things,) etc.  The fact that the major 
> automobile manufacturers have gone to great lengths to destroy every last 
> EV they had made makes for some interesting "conspiracy" thoughts in my 
> mind.  What are they trying to hide?
>
> My intent here is merely to provoke some mindful thought about what we, as 
> consumers, are facing in the real world when faced with high gas and oil 
> prices (while oil companies are enjoying record profits), environmental 
> pollution from oil and gas spills, and not to mention Global Warming due 
> to internal combustion engine exhaust, (I'm not even going to go into the 
> geo-political conflicts costing American lives in the oil-rich Middle 
> East.)  And to also inform people that there are (were) other viable 
> options available as recently as 5-10 years ago that could possibly have 
> kept us from the possible environmental predicament we are currently 
> facing.  Am I willing to give up my trio of quattros at the moment?  No, 
> but I am thinking of the possibilites of transforming a 4000 quattro to 
> electric power sometime in the future........the technology is there to do 
> it.
>
> I invite all thought provoking criticism, constructive and 
> otherwise.......
>
> Best regards to all,
>
> Jim Fleischer
> '95 S6 Avant
> '91 200TQ
> '83 ur
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