NASCAR Stay Home

So, NASCAR wants to build a new speedway to bring their product to the good citizens of Washington. Check out this letter of opposition:

The "stock" NASCAR racing cars still use the dirty old technology of the 1950s: huge V8 engines with 350 cubic inches of displacement, and suction-operated carburetors. No overhead cams and no turbines are allowed. They apparently prefer to be max-polluters. They blast out something like 750 HP when running around 200 mph, and get about four miles per gallon! Worse yet, the high-octane gasoline they burn is leaded.

I wonder if anyone has checked the air quality around those racetracks on a hot, windless day. No wonder some of their drivers die early of lung cancer and lead poisoning.

The fearless (if not suicidal) drivers tailgate each other horribly and continuously at 150 mph and offer a disgusting role model for the rest of us drivers out on the freeway. No wonder tailgating is such a common offense; the ugly tailgating scenes on the freeways are nothing compared with the NASCAR races. That so many of their cars are wrecked is the only redeeming social value of the event. It might suggest what happens to tailgaters.

And to think: NASCAR is second only to football in popularity! What price Americana?

This is so ridiculous it's almost a parody of what passes for left-wing "thought." Is the author actually suggesting that auto racing should consist of people driving Prius's that burn corn oil, with a two-second following rule? And this is followed by a gratuitous swipe at football for good measure. One wonders what athletic competition would meet with a seal of approval from this clown.

Golf? No, needs too much fertilizer to keep the grass green.
Swimming? Wasting of precious natural resources like water is not tolerable.
Baseball? Leather gloves, horsehide ball. 'Nuff said.
Tennis? Aren't those racquets strung with COW GUTS?