RFeibusch@aol.com wrote:
>
> Dear Digest-ers,
> Thanks for all of your comments and any support letters that you might have
> sent to your senators about Sen. Kopp's Smog bill to exempt all cars over 25
> years old. If you haven't sent anything yet, SEND IT NOW!
> As for the folks who suggested that I try not to piss off my neighbors
>...SNIP...
> As for electric cars, ...SNIP... They should be
> testing these cars for our future consumption. Not since De Thomaso was
> riding high, has the consuming public been asked to test unproven prototypes!
> I rest my case. See you on the Funway,
> Rick Feibusch
> Automotive Journalist/Appraiser
> http://www.EnglishCars.com/rick.html
> mailto:RFeibusch@aol.com
> 61 Minor pickup
> 60 Minor Saloon
> 59 Minor Convertible
> 69 Chevelle Malibu 350
>
More power to both your elbow and your vehicles. Tell the neighbour to
FUCK OFF in no uncertain terms. I come from a country where the
interference levels in one's personal affairs became intollerable, and
are getting worse. So I came here. However, I must relate my experiences
as a schoolboy growing up in London. I regularly commuted to and from
school on 'trolley' buses, red double deckers with long overhead arms
sliding along wires suspended from poles to carry the current. They
were very quiet, fast and efficient. They were abandoned in favour of
Diesel propelled double deckers in the name of greater manoeuverability.
I also remember well the electric propelled vehicles which the world's
most wonderful store, HARRODS, used. Quiet, discrete, painted in dark
green (like my TD, BRG), with gold livery. They were always held up to
be examples of good taste and practicability. I believe they are still
used.
Of course, there is always the possibility that California, (which as I
understand it leads the country in it's 'progressive'(?) thinking),
might adopt the latest British idea whereby the British government has
announced that it will increase the price of petrol every year by at
least 5% in order to try to discourage the use of cars overall, and in
particular to try to strangle the LBC types. Yesterday, the petrol
companies announced they would seek to increase the price of their
product by another 6p per litre, about 30p per Imp. gallon, or about 35
cents a US gallon. That would make it about $4.80 a U.S. Gallon. I
wonder if the American public would give greater consideration to
electric cars if they had to pay that price.
I live in Pa. where the state government has recently abandoned plans
for emission testing, with the few exceptions of large cities such as
Pitts. and Philly. Consequently there isn't too much pressure from
'informed' neighbours such as your's, but I would still like to add my
weight to any arguement to help prevent the thin end of the wedge from
levering up the whole of the U.S.. I loathe interference from
bureaucracy in all shapes and sizes (try living under a socialist
government), and would welcome peaceful suggestions as to how I can
assist in this matter. Is it indiscrete for a Pa. resident to canvas
Ca. senators?
Geoff Love, The English Connection
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