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I live in the Seattle area, which is extremely conscious of environmentalism. Every week it seems that there is a new story about the effects of global warming. Last week it was the disappearance of sea urchins. The week before, methane gas bubbling up in the arctic. This week, there is a front page story in the Seattle Times about "Orcas in Peril."
Automotive racing of all types, whether it is car, truck, or motorcycle, serves NO earthly purpose. Someone estimated that ONE driver, a guy named Jeff Gordon, has driven almost 300,000 miles in races alone. That is one guy, and does not even count his practice driving, or his driving getting to and from the track.
No earthly purpose to it, and all the while generating carbon emissions. Wouldn't it be a great idea to ban it? I would not even allow emissions-free cars such as the Tesla to race, since there is no way to tell whether the electricity may have come from coal. I'm completely serious here--I'd ban it all.
Or next week to the Baja peninsula , for more fossil fuel burning pleasure , there will be a couple hundred vehicles ripping it up down there ! http://score-international.com/
Automotive racing of all types, whether it is car, truck, or motorcycle, serves NO earthly purpose.
I dunno about you, but car racing is the most fun I've ever had with my pants on. I love doing it, and i'll continue to do it.
No purpose? There are plenty of things that have no real purpose but are just fun to do. Ride dirtbikes in the woods? No purpose ban it! Jet skis? Oh that's just too much fun but no real purpose. Ban it. Riding snowmobiles through the woods? Nope..no purpose at all. ban them. Lets ban skydiving too because it's a waste of fuel to fly a plane up into the sky just to jump out of it. Ban it. Sport events? No reason to have 50,000 people drive their cars to watch. Ban them
Lets just ban everything. If i can pick one, I vote we ban dogs because they annoy me.
It's actually a well thought out question. It's the kind of choices we are going to have to make in order to "stop global warming". And if auto racing is banned, the next thing might be:
* ban the masses from flying. Only the elites can take planes
* ban sports leagues
* ban passenger cars for the masses. Only trains or busses
It's actually a well thought out question. It's the kind of choices we are going to have to make in order to "stop global warming". And if auto racing is banned, the next thing might be:
* ban the masses from flying. Only the elites can take planes
* ban sports leagues
* ban passenger cars for the masses. Only trains or busses
It's a slippery slope.
Some people want the government to have more control over things in their lives.
The perpetual nanny state thinking that some people have annoys me at times.
No one has yet even tried to explain why we need to have car racing. We don't. Comparing car racing to necessary activities such as travel, breathing(?) etc. is a false comparison.
World leaders flying internationally in private jets to negotiate on how to keep the world safe is unfortunately necessary. How is car racing necessary?
There are many things that we don't need that someone else might. Get over it, life goes on.
I live in the Seattle area, which is extremely conscious of environmentalism. Every week it seems that there is a new story about the effects of global warming. Last week it was the disappearance of sea urchins. The week before, methane gas bubbling up in the arctic. This week, there is a front page story in the Seattle Times about "Orcas in Peril."
Automotive racing of all types, whether it is car, truck, or motorcycle, serves NO earthly purpose. Someone estimated that ONE driver, a guy named Jeff Gordon, has driven almost 300,000 miles in races alone. That is one guy, and does not even count his practice driving, or his driving getting to and from the track.
No earthly purpose to it, and all the while generating carbon emissions. Wouldn't it be a great idea to ban it? I would not even allow emissions-free cars such as the Tesla to race, since there is no way to tell whether the electricity may have come from coal. I'm completely serious here--I'd ban it all.
Automotive racing of all types, whether it is car, truck, or motorcycle, serves NO earthly purpose.
Ah, but it does. Lots of things have entertainment value. Just because you don't like it doesn't change its value.
And BTW, millions of people watch automotive racing all over the world.
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