On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:48:59 -0500, Dale Botkin wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Dominic Stratten wrote:
>
> > Rip off eh and we pay the equivalent of over $1 per litre for petrol !!!
> > (0.73 ukp)
>
> I sometimes wish we did too - maybe then not so many people would be
> driving massive 4WD trucks and "sport utility vehicles" everywhere, most
> of which never see anything but warm garages and smooth pavement.

They're starting to appear here (Britain) too, although they are the smaller models because otherwise there
wouldn't be anywhere to park them!

But anyway, surely four-wheel-drive is vital for the weekly run to the supermarket?  :-)

There was an amazing interview shown here last week involving a Washington DC lobbyist for the "right to drive
huge gas-guzzlers" campaign, who was adamant that lighter cars are inherently more dangerous in an accident,
and even went as far as to say that with a car with 4 people in it versus the same car with 2 people, the
2-people would be injured more because their car was lighter... "Ya canna' change the laws of physics,
Captain!"  - unless you're a politician, apparently!

> > I just wish I could convert the car to run on hot air - our 4 year old son
> > has far too much of it.
>
> My in-laws would drive for free, forever. 8-)

A pipeline to the Houses of Parliament would be a really good source of free energy!  :-)

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England

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