From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 5 11:41:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40E537BAE9; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06371; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 12:40:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38C2B826.D188535A@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 12:40:22 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Alex Zepeda , Dennis , Brett Glass , Mark Newton , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koster, K.J." , Wes Peters Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Alex Zepeda wrote: > > MTBE causes more harm than good. Sure the air in metropolitan areas > > (Bay Area, LA, NY) is better than it was 20 or 30 years ago, but with > > the creeping SUVitis, it's starting to get worse. Sure the exhaust is > > cleaner, but there's so much more of it that it is still overwhelming > > the environment. > > I wouldn't have a problem with SUVs if they were required to pass > emissions and safety requirements other passenger vehicles are. I wouldn't have a problem with SUVs if they were being bought by the 5% of the driving public that actually have some valid reason to own and drive such a car. Then the emissions and safety requirements wouldn't be nearly as important as when they're being bought by 50 or 60 percent of car buyers. Sticking them in the CAFE requirements would go a LONG way to solving the problem. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message