Re: Bronco Busting or now I put my foot in it

[William Elliott <wcelliot@concentric.net>]

To requote Alexander's earlier post:

<<Turbocharged vehicles, sports cars, cars with over 100hp, and so on
should not be sold to anyone
unless they have a specific permit by the state where they drive.  This
special permit should be given out to people who have special needs
requiring faster cars than the average vehicles.  Racing, autocrossing, 
off-road for a specific
purpose other than fun, ... are the only reasons
that a person needs a high performance vehicle.  Sports cars are not for
taking 2 kids to
McDonalds, they are for offroad, racing, autocrossing, and are simply
too fast for proper road travel and emergency driving situations.
    Sports and performance cars are too numerous, they eat gas, they
pollute, and they kill
people in normal cars.  I can fit 5 people in a 70 hp Honda Civic, with
my ski rack on I
get 5 pairs of skis on top too.  I moved an entire room from my dorm to
my
home.  Only took me 30 trips. People that have a race to attend need
sports cars, not people that have 2 kids
and a dog.  I am sick and tired of being tailed by owners of Ford
Mustangs who think they have a sporty, fast, safe automobile.  I slammed
on the brakes while a Camaro was behind me and the lady nearly
ate my car for lunch, and she wasn't even that close, and she was not on
a
cellular phone.
    Now if people think that it is their right to drive an overpowered,
gas-guzzling, dangerous Sports car they are sorely mistaken.  Slow cars
belong on roads,
sports cars belong offroad or racing.  That is what they where designed
for, not
highway travel with a kiddy in the back.  I am also a
firm believer that as in Europe trains are the most effecticve transport
for
cargo, NOT 18 wheelers which can go directly to where the supplies need
to be delivered. Then the local use of 5 times as many smaller trucks to
get to the actual location.

    The US is in big trouble when it comes to transportation.  Europe is
way
ahead of us, use of train systems for transport of people and cargo,
small
city cars like Trabants with great fuel efficiency, beautifully
maintained roadways for
the most part, low speed limits for the most part, strict enforcement by
cameras,  fewer civil liberties, higher tax rates, higher fuel rates,
socialized medicine, high unemployment, and people seem to
actually pay attention while driving because the lower classes can't
afford a car.  We need to cut emissions, unclutter
our roadways, and rethink this whole faster is better attitude we all
have.
I am not pointing the finger at anyone on this list, but it's ridiculous
to
think sports cars should even be sold to the common
housewife/househusband without
a special needs permit. After all, the speed limit's 55mph.>>

Get the point?

Bill Elliott
Lake Mills, WI