Interesting read!

[desertgasser300]

Saw this on one of the local off road forums.

"There is a cost to operating a motorized vehicle in the desert beyond the expense of buying a quad or a four wheel drive car: the cost of NO2, CO emissions polluting the environment, the cost of stirring up particulates in the air, and the cost of ruining the ecology of the desert from killing the microbes, plants and insects in the soil to the birds and mammals that eat them. Yes, the desert is public land, and you are imposing a cost on public land called an externality, a cost that does not appear on the books and which you don't pay for. A hiker on a trail does none of that. The grease monkeys do not have a right to impose costs on public land. In addition, only a phillistine would want to escape the industrialized world by taking a loud internal combustion engine into a wild life area or a wilderness area with him. What escape from the factory, the freeway or the metal shop is that? You take about Constitutional rights but know nothing about them. Hardly any are absolute rights. You obviously know nothing about chemistry or ecology. You only care about your right to do whatever you want to do, and to heck with any regulations which would impinge on your ersatz and puerile manhood. Instead of living in harmony with the Earth, you want to dominate it in a small, under-educated way which gives you a strong, powerful identity in your own mind. "