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Ride for the Roses

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  1. Doug Haxton <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Barry Gaudet said:

    : That plus a defective exhaust system leaking monoxide into the passenger compartment is the
    : only explanation for a delusional wish like yours.

    Close. I sometimes wish auto's exhaust would be expelled into the passenger compartment rather
    than poisoning the air we all have to breathe.

    Why do you feel it is perfectly acceptable to expel those toxic constituents into other
    people's air?

    While I can't speak for the other poster, I feel that it's perfectly acceptable...for the same
    reason it's perfectly acceptable for a coal-fired electricity generation station to pollute
    the air.

    While such pollution should be minimized where economically feasible, it's simply the part of the
    cost of a living in a modern industrial civilization. While you may not like this, the simple fact
    is that the vast majority of people are willing to live with such pollution. If you don't like it,
    I suggest you move somewhere sufficiently isolated to the degree that there isn't any air
    pollution.

    Or move to Holland--or Berlin or Copenhagen, etc---where, besides being a fully modern industrial
    civilization, they got bicycles lanes all over the place.

    Actually, I think Holland is indeed fully modern while America hangs on to her 19th century
    capitalism (Perot's words).

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