Should General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler/Dodge be allowed to promote and fund the National Association of Stock Car Racing under the present economic circumstances? These companies are struggling to keep from going belly up. GMC is operating more or less at the expense of the government and tax payers. How can NACAR be justified or rationalized? Car racing is the epitome of excess gas and oil consumption. Consumption is the nature of the beast. The motor companies pump billions of money each year into this spectator sport. I say thumbs down! Shut down car racing for the sake of energy conservation

http://www.nascar.com/

Anyone who sponsors a sport where people take left turns all day is asking for financial trouble.

Its called Leftist Syndrome (LS). I understand a fair amount of liberals suffer from this .

Leftist Syndrome (n.)

1. The irresistible urge to continue your course in the same direction hoping that some outside force will change the outcome around the next, inevitable bend (while simultaniously knowing that its unlikely). Crashes are sought-after distractions that avert the general public's focus from the monotony of repetitious policy that brings you full circle at the end of the day. The powerful nature of LS stems from its ability to manipulate through persuasion many non-suffers (of LS or RS(1)-see below) into believing in concepts like hope and change without holding actual substance beneath them. Once an LS suffer has thoroughly persuaded their way into power, they abandon the substance they never supported and continue on with their own agendas.

2. Tree huggers (sometimes known by their genus Hippious Activatus or more commonly, Hippies).

3. There is a splinter segment that closely aligns with RS(2). Sans identical timeline.

Similarly, I understand that conservatives suffer from a similar affliction known as Rightest Syndrome (RS).

Rightest Syndrome (n.)

1. See LS but reverse direction.

2. The state in which people actually have great ideas on how to run the country and allow the market to freely operate (as much as possible) to the boon of everyone in the nation. Often held in direct opposition to LS suffers and RS (1) suffers and rarely in a seat of true influence for long periods (circa November 1981-January 1989, presently unaccounted for until date unknown).

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I emerge from hiding to declare that a lame joke. And into the shadows I return...

But still good enough to draw you out of hiding

i deffinitely think that NASCAR sponserships are important. the races bring in app. 100,000 fans each week, all of whom must by tickets, refreshments, etc. plus, they must have used some sort of vehicle to get to the raceway, meaning money has been circulated through vehicle purchase or rental, gasoline, and parking fees. i do not understand how something which helps to get so much money circulating and therefore stimulating the economy can be considered bad for the economy

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Originally posted by yankeefan821:
i deffinitely think that NASCAR sponserships are important. the races bring in app. 100,000 fans each week, all of whom must by tickets, refreshments, etc. plus, they must have used some sort of vehicle to get to the raceway, meaning money has been circulated through vehicle purchase or rental, gasoline, and parking fees. i do not understand how something which helps to get so much money circulating and therefore stimulating the economy can be considered bad for the economy

Are we to believe that excess consumption of fuel is good for the economy? Does excess consumption of fuel not drive the price of gasoline up? If 100,000 people buy an average of 20 gallons of gasoline each (a conservative estimate) then that is 2,000,000 gallons of gasoline that is purchased for each racing event. NASCAR sponsors are corporate sponsors. Corporations exist to make a profit. Profit is paramount above all to a corporation. Profit is paramount to the environmental issues. This is what the big oil companies thrive on, consumption equals profit. If 100,000 people purchased 40 gallons of gasoline to go to the races then that equates to 4,000,000 gallons of gasoline (not to mention the fuel that the race cars use in the race and the fuel used to transport the teams from city to city each week in semi-trucks). The NASCAR season opens in the late winter or early spring and continues until November. The seasons is eight or nine months long. If NASCAR could be discontinued then it would possibly eliminated the consumption of a billion gallons of gasoline per year. I don’t know many people that are NASCAR fans. The ones that I do know drive big SUV’s or sports cars that consume excess amounts of gasoline.

I drive a Dodge Dakota pickup that has a 3.9 V-6 engine with a manual 5-speed overdrive transmission. I bought the truck because it gets great gas mileage. It gets up to 28 miles per gallons on the long haul. Typically I get 22 miles per gallons during a normal week of driving and or commuting 29 miles to work (one-way). My wife drives a Honda Accord that has a four-cylinder engine. My daughter drives a PT Cruiser that has a four cylinder engine.

What do you drive?

I drive a 1994 Ford Tempo which gets about 35 hwy mpg. and keep in mind that the NASCAR season may seem long because it is over a span of 8 or 9 months, but the races are only on saturdays and sundays, and occasionally fridays. so, really, it comes down to about one month's worth of racing, maybe even less.