<VV> green rant and some corvair related stuff

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

> Nice post Robert.  You sum it up really well.  Whenever someone snaps at 
> me "how can youd d rive an old car or how can you say you claim to care 
> about the enviroment when you drive an old car?"

Sorry Geoff - you aren't a true Green then. Although what you say is 100% 
correct and I agree with it (and it is in fact borne out by quite a body of 
research - a study by the University of Utrecht in Holland springs to mind), 
you wouldn't last 5 minutes in Britain.

Your position is exactly what mine was 10 years ago; mine now is a 
consequence of the attitude of every single British 'Green' I know - 
basically, we gave them an inch and they took a mile. I suppose it was 
predictable that once we had acceded to their requests to fit cats and 
modify cars so that they weren't 'polluting', the spotlight would fall on 
the ones that had been made before then - and that's just what is happening. 
A friend of mine who has a 1934 Hudson was even told during the recent 
election, by the Official Green Party candidate for his area, that he should 
'recycle' his Hudson, and that he 'shouldn't' be driving it because it is a 
'polluting' old car (as if having to drive a Hudson weren't punishment 
enough! (;-)).

And Corvairs are seen here as 'huge' cars with 'huge' engines (anything over 
1999 cc is considered 'huge' over here!).

You might be Green in the USA but you wouldn't be Green over here!

Cheers

Alan