I was going to post a response that gives some support to the global warming cause.. but I think this reading this post on the site is a better use of the carbons emitted while reading this post... :tongue:
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Posted by: Dick Winchester on 10:02pm Mon 4 Jun 07
James Porteous is the Herald's Chief Sports Sub-editor, a football fanatic and self evidently neurologically challenged. After all it's well known that football supporters can only count to 22 and have real difficulty patting their stomach and rubbing their head at the same time. That's why there's only one ball and the goals are at either end of the pitch.. If there were two balls their dimunitive little brains would explode. Of course it is complete and utter nonsense to suggest that motor sport is killing people because of the amount of CO2 it's producing. If this pompous baffoon knew anything at all about automotive engineering he would be aware that motor sport has contributed a huge amount to modern car design and the dramatic improvements in both safety and engine efficiency. In fact, it is also the engine developers who have driven most of the work towards the use of alternative fuels such as bio-ethanol, bio-diesel and hydrogen. Lotus - well known for their involvement in motor sport - used their engineering skills recently to develop an all electric vehicle. As an energy technology specialist I could give plenty of other examples of the good that motorsport has done for the world. it's a pity Mr Porteus didn't actually bother to do some real research before committing fingers to keyboad. If he had he'd be praising the motorsport industry not dismissing it. Oh and another small point... Motorsport fans tend not to get smashed out of their brains, beat each other up or cause riots in foreign countries. We're all together a much better breed of person! .
James Porteous is the Herald's Chief Sports Sub-editor, a football fanatic and self evidently neurologically challenged. After all it's well known that football supporters can only count to 22 and have real difficulty patting their stomach and rubbing their head at the same time. That's why there's only one ball and the goals are at either end of the pitch.. If there were two balls their dimunitive little brains would explode.
Of course it is complete and utter nonsense to suggest that motor sport is killing people because of the amount of CO2 it's producing.
If this pompous baffoon knew anything at all about automotive engineering he would be aware that motor sport has contributed a huge amount to modern car design and the dramatic improvements in both safety and engine efficiency. In fact, it is also the engine developers who have driven most of the work towards the use of alternative fuels such as bio-ethanol, bio-diesel and hydrogen. Lotus - well known for their involvement in motor sport - used their engineering skills recently to develop an all electric vehicle.
As an energy technology specialist I could give plenty of other examples of the good that motorsport has done for the world. it's a pity Mr Porteus didn't actually bother to do some real research before committing fingers to keyboad. If he had he'd be praising the motorsport industry not dismissing it.
Oh and another small point... Motorsport fans tend not to get smashed out of their brains, beat each other up or cause riots in foreign countries. We're all together a much better breed of person!
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