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Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue & an Ardun questions

To: ardunbill@webtv.net, John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>,
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue & an Ardun questions
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:07:33 -0800 (PST)
I sure hope you're right on this Ardun Bill.

Hey there Bill, While I'm talkin at ya.  I've
always wondered, what do you do to the valve
pockets and block reliefs/ports when you put on a
set of Arduns?  Just weld them up and make a new
flat deck?

Dick J

--- ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
> John and Group, just as sure as you're born
> this is just another
> non-issue, foolish agitation from somebody
> about some hobgoblin.  Sure,
> there are environmental groups, sure they can
> hire lawyers to go
> confront the BLM about this, that or the other.
>  Sure, some of them are
> fanatics and crackpots, and sure, they
> sometimes create a nuisance.
> 
> The fact is, the environment has to be used by
> people, and, the
> environment has to be protected in a REASONABLE
> fashion from more abuse
> than it can handle.  But, I am quite certain
> that speed trials people,
> to most of whom the Salt Flats is a hallowed
> place, create no adverse
> impact on them by running with care a few times
> a year, and I'm quite
> certain the BLM feels this way about it.
> 
> Anybody can complain about anything, and
> anybody can sue anybody about
> anything, but the Law, the Courts, and Congress
> set great store by
> precedent and tradition.  The racers have been
> at Bonneville over 50
> years, do not hurt it, and I am quite certain
> that politically, and
> under the Law, this activity will be conducted
> there in 50 years and 100
> years, the same as it is today.
> 
> I see no reason for speed trials people to get
> all upset and ride off in
> all directions by a little spate of agitation
> like this.  In all
> likelihood it will disappear without a trace
> like a pebble tossed into a
> pond.  Cheers from ArdunBill (who has his toe
> in the water of local
> politics) in the Great Dismal Swamp,
> Chesapeake, VA
> 
> 


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