On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:44:34 -0400, RichA > wrote:

Here's a challenge. Stop being a dumbass.


>A Canadian firm has released a new catalytic converter for cars
>that removes almost all pollutants from auto exhausts. It will take
>a stream from a regular converter and remove a further 98% of the
>pollutants. A regular converter costs $300 to the industry. This one
>costs $1400. Do you think all the Hollywood phonies will be putting
>these on their cars, to show what good enviro-citizens they are??
>Not likely. You know why? Because you can't SEE it, the way you can
>a Toyota Prius, so there's nothing for the average Hollywoodite to
>parade around and preen about and boast about what great
>environmentalists they are.
>
>How about getting Kyoto to MANDATE putting it on all cars produced
>world-wide? Not likely EITHER since the CHINESE and INDIANS (2.3
>billion people) don't even have REGULAR (that have been on American
>cars since 1976) catalytic converters.
>
>My car cost about $40,000. If it means spending $2800 (cost of two
>new converters) to outfit it with a device that renders it less
>polluting than a cigarette lighter, I'm all for it. PROVIDED it is
>mandated that ALL cars produced have it from NOW on.
>
>The gauntlet is down, phony enviro-leftists, Hollywood trendies and
>Asiatics; Pick it up, I DARE you! PROVE you aren't just anti-Western
>CLOWNS, that the Kyoto Accord isn't just a FRAUD designed to shift
>wealth and jobs east and that you DO care about air pollution.