On Sat, 09 Aug 1997 19:21:22 -0700 patrick bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
writes:
>Good news!
>i just heard on the news that they have found out the MTBE crap that
>they have been shoving is
>dangerously contaminating our ground water and now the powers that be
>is looking into banning the
>junk!It's about time! They didn't test the stuff before they shoved it
>down our carburators and now
>I hope they have to pay and pay dearly,I also hope the motorists in
>Calif file a large class action
>law suit against the state,I want every car in this state checked for
>damage by this additive and
>make the state pay for it all.
Are you a lawyer? If not, you would never see any significant money from
such a suit. In fact, your taxes would rise to pay the suit. I've been
a "member" of two class action lawsuits-- one against my mortgage company
and one against the company that made my shotgun. I did not ask for
either suit to be filed, the lawyers did it on their own, guess why? In
the first suit I got $12.72, in the second I got $14.08 and a piece of
paper that instructed me not to put dirt in my shotgun barrel (duh!). In
both cases I received two income tax forms I have to file. Who got the
millions? The lawyers. Who paid for it? The customers of the bank and
the shotgun manufacturer in higher prices. This idiocy that there is a
"they" out there that pays for stuff is transferring wealth from _your_
pocket into the pockets of lawyers.
Do _you_ really want to help pay for the state to inspect all these cars
and pay for the damage? I thought California taxes and automobile
surcharges were already some of the highest in the nation?
Better to be more active up front-- in choosing elected officials that
will make smarter decisions and reverse dumb ones, like this MTBE
nonsense, which was a bad decision from the word go.
Just my $0.2.
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
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