Regarding old clunker smog laws. I know I've heard it somewhere that 80
percent
of the pollution attributed to your average motor vehicle is produced during
its
manufacture. Assuming a ten year lifespan for a car, you could drive your old
car forty years before equalling the amount of pollution created during the
production of a new car. Many enviornmentally concerned citizens are being fed
limited staistics which ignore the enviornmental costs of production: mining
ore, refining, transporting raw mterials, machining, chemical factories, heck,
even recycling requires melting it down again. I don't advocate the
cessation
of all new manufacturing, just a rational view of the really big picture
regarding clunker laws. It would seem to be in the best interest of certain
parties ( ie GM,Ford,Chrysler and the related industries) to encourage the
production and purchase of newer enviornmentally frendly vehicles. These same
parties make serious contributions to many politicians'. Hmmmm.
Brian Corrigan
67 Alpine V
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