As someone who has spent his entire career in the environmental feild,
it is necessary for me to make a comment. I think that it is important that
all of you do voice your opinions to your senators and congressman. However,
please do so after you have taken the time to inform yourselves about why
this effort is being undertaken. Perhaps it is not as bad as others would
like you to think because it adversely impacts their businesses.
Used on a daily basis, these older cars are substantially higher
sources of air pollution than their modern replacements for daily commuting.
To further improve air quality, it is simply more cost-effective to remove
these older daily polluters than to try to improve new vehicle emissions.
Improving the emission performance of new vehicle is becoming
increasing costly. One struggles to make a very very small difference at a
high price - just as one struggles to get more hp out of an already finely
developed race engine. It is much more effective to remove cars from daily
use that are already polluting hundreds to thousands of times higher levels
than the new car.
If we are honest with ourselves, we probably already each have more
Triumph parts than we need. We have probably accummulated those parts by
salvaging other cars ourselves. The fact that Triumphs are being scrapped is
just a reflection of what a low value society places on a Triumphs. It costs
much more to restore these cars than they are valued at by the general public
and even other racers. This legislation will not change that society's
perception of the marque.
A bigger concern of mine is very honestly if anyone will be interested
in the Triumph marque as we pass out of the racing picture. There are alot of
wonderful new cars that are capturing the current generation's imagination.
Cary
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