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Originally Posted by fergyflyer
I got into a disscussion on this topic in another forum. One of the comments made was why do we car enthusiasts feel we have a right to a car that has 400hp.
My answer was this. We car enthusiasts have the same right to enjoy the pursuit of happiness granted by the constitution that every person living in a 2500 sf or larger house does. Just like a 400 hp car or truck, most people really don't need a large house. The resources wasted by a large house are far greater than the resources wasted by a 400 hp car that is driven mostly for pleasure.
Since it's justified that you have to have housing, and you need to have transportation to survive in America today, why are we attacking just the transportation aspect of it. That's where I derive my happiness and why is my form of happiness worse than the guy down the street that lives in a 4 bedroom 3600 sf house with just his wife. Why is their swimming pool, hot tub and 48 external lights around the house ok, but a 400 hp or 625hp Corvette not ok.
What we really need is the government to get back to the guidelines of the constitution.
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Yeah but...........my house has never had a high speed collision with another house.
My house travels at exactly the same speed as every other home in the country with the possible exception of the idiots in CA who build on steep hillsides that are prone to mudslides or the slow learners who continue to live on the banks of major waterways in a floodplain.
My house can't be used as a weapon to intimidate other homeowners who are minding their own business.
Weather has little effect on the way in which I use my house or it's speed.
My excercise of poor judgement in my home will generally not impact other homeowners.
Lack of maintenance to my home might result in pissed off neighbors but seldom will it result in the death of innocent bystanders or damage to other people's property.
No, aggressive driving in high powered cars with a huge performance gap compared to the average traffic on pulic roads is not quite the same as my McMansion sucking up fuel oil, propane, and electricity.
If you want to drive 150MPH in traffic, do it on a closed prepared track with other like minded enthusiasts and emergency response crews at the ready, not public roads.
You and I absolutely have the right to own and enjoy high performance cars if we can afford them. As long as we do it responsibly without putting other people at risk. Unfortunately, every day we all see examples of a$$holess excercising poor judgement on public roads in cars that likely exceed their skill level by a wide margin. These are the agressive morons that non-enthusiasts react to, not the 45 year old guy that occasionally takes a run to 150 MPH in his Z06 on a wide open restricted access highway. Personally, I don't mind these retards killing themselves. I'm actually very supportive of their attempts to cleanse the gene pool. But, when they put my property, or my life at risk, or the lives of my family, their rights end.....period!
