im going to point out that we are all environmentalists- is anyone here
*for* destroying the environment? its a matter of how you value changes
to the environment against other factors.
that we can even entertain the notion of buying a local site is
incredible for a sport that is driving around in parking lots on
alternate sundays. if all the local sites close, then at least ive had
a whole lot of fun up to now!
james
OSP - Oily, Smoking Polluters
Viet-Tam Luu wrote:
>On 11/30/05, jesvilla@comcast.net <jesvilla@comcast.net> wrote:
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>>The way the environmentalists are getting their way here in California just
>means that our venues are going to be going away, slowly, but surely, and
>finding new venues has proven to be difficult if not next to impossible.
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>I wouldn't blame the environmentalists (much as I'd like to)... more
>like simple economics. We use large paved, otherwise vacant pieces of
>land. As long as there's a demand for real estate and land prices are
>sufficiently high, those pieces of land are more valuable to their
>owner as something other than an autocross site. The only real
>solution is for the owner to have a vested interest in preserving the
>site for autocross--and the only such owner would be us.
>
>Many/most racetracks have large skidpad areas that are suitable (and
>more easily available) for autocrosses. It's unfortunate that they're
>a bit out of the way (Thunderhill) or if not, rather busy on the
>weekends (Laguna, Infineon).
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