Are our Slants "Unsafe"?

Quick note on the enviro-crap:

There was a thing in Hot Rod that said, if you find a good clean old car and drive it in lieu of ordering a Prius and driving it you will be, miles, and dollars ahead of the eco-freak. You crush an old car and melt it into a new car, said old loses all its value it HAD and COULD have. It takes electricity or some form of making heat to melt the car, it takes diesel to run the loader, the train, the shredder, the crusher, and the people running it gotta get paid. Then the plastic and trim doesn't come out of thin air, they gotta be manufactured in a similar "energy consuming" process. So the little A-body sedan with a 225 is putting along on the highway putting out X amount of pollutants, and then eco-freak is waiting a week or two for a factory order, the pollution caused by a new car is contributing to the problem they claim to be helping to "fix". So while the pollution of manufacturing the Dart Sedan happened it has been fixed, and is null. While the Prius puts out X pollutants aswell, arguably in less tailpipe emissions, it causes the same, if not more air pollution than the Dart.

The Dart is obviously a basic car and requires only conventional maintenance, the Prius requires batterys every 4-5 years which adds $3000-$5000 to the bill, and no these are not pollution free smart batteries as they want you to think, it's a bigger version of what sits in the front of the engine compartments of all our Mopars. Then the electric motor maintenance. It is more environmental responsible to drive an old car. It is not sitting around leaking oil into the ground, and tainting water with antifreeze, or causing an eye-sore. We, brothers (and sisters) driving the Mopars of the past are the TRUE environmentalists (who actaully do something other than complain).
That's right, each old car saved from the crusher, or pulled out of the woods-field, or started up after 15 years is the greatest act of recycling, no, not condemning and ripping on old cars.

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On topic:

Well, you know, why even debate the safety of an old car. If you had 10,000 ppl, all of whom smoked, according to the "all powerful" gov't they'd all be dead from that before they got into a fatal car crash. The only reason they don't raise cain about smoking is becuase your not taxed according to the miles you drive (yet) but you are taxed by how many packs you buy.