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Should the United States Congress take the leap and ban auto racing? Why not take away all of our personal liberties at a time when our nation is at war? I think we're at war, at least they keep telling us we are at war against some unseeing force called terrorism which rears its ugly head every now and then causing death and destruction. Our soldiers of off on distant shores fighting so, we must be at war, and when we are at war, Congress can make all sorts of changes that affect the general populace. They didn't even need a war when they banned alchohol eighty years ago and doesn't auto racing have it's roots in the boot legging drivers that ran moon shine during Prohibition? With the enactment of the Patriot Act, Congress has been granted the power to usurp personal liberty and that equates to taking away our fun. Isn't auto racing fun? It's supposed to be, because sports are fun and isn't auto racing a sport? Well, I'm not a fan of that sport and let's qualify the term 'sport' right here and label auto racing just what it really is, a competition. A sport embodies a team concept, players on one side competing against players on an opposite side. Volleyball is a sport, while tennis is a competition. Both require skill and stamina but, one requires an individual playing against another individual while the other entails team work. You may thank me later for this, as I have just answered the age old question, "is golf a sport?" It may take a finely tuned athlete at the peak of his skill level to win on the PGA Tour but, he is competing against other individuals, ergo, a competition.

Now that we've cleared that up, let's take issue with Congress and the question at hand. First off, I answered 'Yes' simply because it was the first button to click. In my amazement that this was even a topic, I clicked the wrong button, and once clicked the process was irreversible. This is an energy issue and race cars suck gasoline so Congress will be conserving energy if they do institute a ban but, the last time I looked, gas was under two bucks a gallon again, cheap. So, my answer should have been 'No' because there is no way that Congress is ever going to touch such an issue. From the grass roots level up, stock car racing is as intrinsic an American pastime as there is, and no Congressman is foolhardy enough to even consider such a stance as attempting to ban the competition. You will notice that at the end of the last sentence I did not use the word sport, as we have already

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