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Old 09-26-2010, 07:20 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redyaris View Post
The questions that need to be answered is what are the costs of wasteful cars and driving in terms of
cost/distance [at various speeds]
cost of accidents due to speed/average speed
cost of speeding tickets/driver
cost of maintenance/average speed
cost of insurance due to speeding tickets/diver...
My friend, we could post a thousand posts, and come to no better conclusion than this: cars are costly to drive, enviromentally unsound, and if God wanted us to go anywhere on wheels, he'd have outfitted us with roller skates on our feet. It is simply our desire, or need, to go x distance in x timeframe that creates the need for cars.

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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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