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Just Relax and Enjoy It.(NEWS)
Byline: Mark Vaughn
Many people write to me and say, "Vaughn, I don't have enough stuff to worry about. Can you suggest some areas of concern over which I might obsess?
Yes, I can. That's what I'm here for.
First of all, and don't let this upset you, we're all going to hell. And I don't mean the economy or the car industry or any other popular areas of dismay. To really worry, you have to pull way back and look at the big picture, the long-, long-range plan.
Right now, of course, you can enjoy what you have. Enjoy your "67 Camaro, your "63 Split Window, your Dino, De Tomaso and DeSoto, because there is no conceivable way that 6 billion peoplesoon to be 12 billion and then who knows how manyare ever going to be able to drive BMWs and live in the fabulous stucco eyesores that we in the industrialized world now enjoy. Once the rest of the planet rises from its agrarian roots and starts wanting all the useless kay-wrap in which you and I now wallow, look out. So enjoy it while you can.
When car companies, Web posters and expert pundits claim and counterclaim the exact tonnage of CO2 or particulate matter or whether this or that pollutant is produced remotely instead of at the tailpipe and blah-blah-freaking-blah, I have to throw back my head and laugh, just like this, "Ha ha ha ha ha!
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