September 6, 2005
Rising Gas Costs and NASCAR
(Filed under: Business)Rising fuel costs, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, are starting to pinch the wallets of NASCAR teams. The cost of diesel fuel has doubled in the past year and if regular gasoline is topping $3.00 per gallon, you can imagine the cost of racing fuel, which often costs twice as much.
"I may be paying more money, but I'm not 10 feet under water, either," said local Florida racer Ted Vulpius.
While the fuel crunch is definitely being felt, it's nothing like the energy crisis in the 1970s when Congress identified NASCAR racing as a waste of fuel. In response NASCAR shortened the Daytona 500 to 450 miles as a good will gesture, despite their complaints that other sports use more fuel transporting multiple teams across the country.
While fuel "wasted" on the track probably pales in comparison to the fuel spent getting competitors and fans to the track, I've always thought it would be cool if NASCAR ran an environmentally friendly series, souped up solar-powered cars or hybrids or something. Green cars that could still go fast. It'd be primarily public relations, but imagine the interest that could be brought to fuel-efficient vehicles.
Posted by kevin at September 6, 2005 1:12 PM
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NASCAR is the absolute greatest waste of fuel/resources, as you all know is produced by our (US) potential enemies, as I can possibly imagine. The lives of servicemen of this country on the backs of supplies and abusers of this limited resource (oil which we are fighting for in Iraq where I have fought, oil you might have not known is the main constituent of gasoline) It is un-American to support this waste of fuel.
Sorry, but it is the truth.
Posted by: B clause at February 26, 2006 4:09 PM
