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Article #7943Pay-at-the-Pump Car Insurance?
From: John Elder
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 22:15
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 22:15
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> the major problem is that > these > lowered costs are distributed about in a basically random fashion. Nope. If it were =RANDOM= you couldn't make this statement: > Someone who drives a large number of miles in a not particularly > fuel-efficient car > with a good driving record on open highway, which is less prone to > accidents > per mile driven, is bound to be paying far more for insurance. Then you went on to complain: > That's grossly unfair. "Someone who drives a large number of miles in a not particularly fuel-efficient car" contributes more than his/her fair share to air pollution and resource depletion. Seems fair to me that this type of behavior ought to be economically penalized. Peace, John * Origin: The Recovery Connection 1-310-322-2745 (1:102/541)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df74,df18d9b6459d6cef X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-15 14:15:00 PST From: John.Elder@f541.n102.z1.fidonet.org (John Elder) Sender: NewsMeisterII@mcws.fidonet.org Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mcws!NewsMeisterII Newsgroups: ca.environment Subject: Pay-at-the-Pump Car Insurance? Message-ID: <729856708.AA09551@mcws.fidonet.org> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 14:15:00 -0800 Lines: 26