Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:16:23 -0500
Reply-To: Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From: Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: Re: CARB madness! (Friday)
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And people think I'm nuts because I live in Iowa and I actually LIKE it
here. No pollutions stickers, no need. Some people find the water here
a little scary (We love the smell of Atrazine in the morning). Even the
liberals and conservatives here are, for the most part, of the pragmatic
ilk. If you've ever asked yourself the question "why can't we just get
along?" try Iowa. For the most part, we do. Of course, the lack of
diversity here tends to make our little world a bit less
complicated.....
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Donald Baxter Iowa City, Iowa
(319) 337-0494
www.mindspring.com/~onanov
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Donna Stewart
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:42 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: CARB madness! (Friday)
Ok. I'm drunk enough to comment on this (my boss is nice and took me to
a Friday zinfindel lunch). Californians must be the dumbest people on
the planet. Barbara Boxer speaks for the fish. How nice for the
millionaire feminist senator. The fish have a nice place to live but
the farmers and their families starve for lack of water because a fish
is more important. Any state that would continually elect such corrupt
morons as Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein either has a bunch of
stupid people living in it or rampant voter fraud (and I think it's the
latter). The politics of this state embarrass me. I drive a car that
gets minimum 52mpg and fairly clean emissions (that will only improve
with technolgy) but CARB has tried to force VW and others not to sell
diesels here. They try to get people to buy the butt-ugly hybrid Hondas
and Toyotas or full electric cars that are now impractical but insist
that diesels cause cancer and have caused a bunch of people to die, all
without any scientific proof offered. People in this state whine about
saving the environment but cause traffic jams (and smog and litter)
trying to get into Yosemite every weekend (in their SUVs with their
Sierra Club bumper stickers). Don't get me started (ok, I already am
started.) Welcome to the People's Republic of California. And no, you
can't buy a TDI Eurovan here. People in California aren't the only
dummies in the People's Republic of the United States. Oh, by the way,
our hard working Democrat legislature is trying to pass the state budget
and raising the sales tax in the process. And the governor has signed
power contracts, some for the next 20 years, without divulging the
details to us taxpayers, the ones who will be paying the bill for the
next 20 years. In the meantime, we now have a surplus of electricity.
Now you can buy and drive your ugly electric cars - have a nice day in
the not-so-Golden State. P.S. - to all the Yuppie environmentalists in
the Bay Areas - please don't bother stopping in places like Tracy to eat
and otherwise pollute the environment on the way to polluting Yosemite
and other places in the Sierra Nevada - if you are true
environmentalists you'd stay out of the "environment" and leave it in
peace.
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