In response to post 5, I have to wonder what experience was so tramatizing that this person fealt the need to write such an extensive...essay(for lack of the correct term).
I think that guy needs some psychological help. Hearing a loud exhuast for a couple of seconds shouldn't incite such unbridled hate. I also don't like the way he uses percentages to manipulate the statistics. Percentages tend to make any situation look a lot worse. If I said there was a 9 trillion% increase in sound levels of a car, that sounds pretty dang loud. If I told you that car originally emitted noise level of about 1x10 -9million(superscript, I dont know how to do it here), well it's probably still pretty damn quiet. This guy and other people like him have a bone to pick for some reason and they feel like forcing their perceptions of acceptability on others. He should move to California if he wants to be a hot rod Nazi. oh yes and
