Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari's & Porsches to be banned in Europe soon

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Thank you Dennis. :-)

rick
--- Dennis Liu <bigheaddennis [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> Irony:  "Irony is a form of speech in which the real
> meaning is concealed or
> contradicted by the words used. Irony involves the
> perception that things
> are not what they are said to be or what they seem.
> Dramatic irony lies in
> the audience's deeper perceptions of a coming fate,
> which contrast with a
> character's lack of knowledge about said fate. A
> common metaphor for using
> irony is to "have your tongue in cheek"."
> 
> Vty,
> 
> --Dennis
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfaowner [mailto:alfaowner [at] sprynet.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:26 PM
> To: Dennis Liu
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: [Ferrari] Ferrari's & Porsches to be banned
> in Europe soon
> 
> Rick:
>  
> Can you be serious?  "I think it is blatantly
> obvious that a few exotic
> sports cars create more pollution than do
> tens-of-millions of Hondas,
> Toyotas and Renaults!  They are also much more
> guilty than are power plants
> and factories."  No, you can't be. 
> 
> Let's see - a few cars that are only driven a few
> hundred or at most a few
> thousand miles/kilometers a year versus
> "tens-of-millions" of little
> struggling cars that are driven an average  (in the
> US) of 12,000 miles a
> year.  If all cars have to meet emissions regs of
> their respective
> countries, you are still talking about an equation
> that is so far out of
> balance it's ridiculous.  
> 
> In the first 3 months of 2007 Ferrari sold 396 cars
> in the US, Aston 438,
> Maserati 526, Lamborghini 246, Porsche 5,588. 
> That's a total of 7,194.
> That compares with 194,550 Hondas & total US car
> sales of 1,861,459.  So,
> the "pollution-creating" exotics (Is Porsche really
> an exotic?) that
> comprise 39/100ths of one percent of US sales are
> going to create more
> pollution than will "...tens-of-millions of Hondas,
> Toyotas and Renaults! "
> Please Rick or someone give us a scenario in which
> it might be even remotely
> possible.
> 
> AS for the power plants & factories...
> 
> And, BTW, if anyone doesn't believe that we are
> experiencing global warming,
> ignore the possibility & just think about the
> exponential increase in skin
> cancers in recent years.  Could it be caused by the
> depleting ozone layer or
> just too many exotics on the road?
> 
> Norm Sippel
> 
> Ferrari seats in my Alfa Spider
> 
>
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