NW States Unite on Car Emissions(sts. on both coasts in env. squeeze play)

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN/AP:
Northwest states unite on car emissions
Others mull rules to fight global warming, enhance oil security
Sunday, August 21, 2005


SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- Despite an effort by auto industry lobbyists to kill the move, two Pacific Northwest States -- Oregon and Washington -- are getting ready to adopt California's new vehicle emission standards to reduce greenhouse gases.

When that happens, California's newly implemented emissions standards -- the toughest in the country -- will be in effect along the entire West Coast from Canada to Mexico.

By 2016, all new cars, SUVs and light trucks sold in the West Coast states would have to comply with the tougher standards on emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which are believed to be a leading cause of global warming. The 2016 date was set to give automakers plenty of time to comply with the new standards.

At least six states in the Northeast are also moving to adopt California's new tailpipe standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars.

It's an environmental squeeze play -- with states on the two coasts working to try to force the auto industry to turn out cleaner, more fuel efficient cars, since those states comprise nearly a third of the U.S. car market....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/21/emissions.standards.ap/index.html

[goforit]

1. I salute you all!!!!!

[pimpbot]

2. The auto industry is full of BULL..

"Consumers ought to be able to make the choices of options they want on their vehicle, and not have those choices made for them," says Eron Shosteck of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a Washington, D.C.-based auto industry group.


Well, as a consumer, I want the choice of having my SUV drain its oil onto the highway while driving, and pour fresh oil in every 100 miles. I would also like a large spear on the front for those pesky pedestrians.

MORANS.

[depakid]

3. Too little too late

Deck chairs on the titanic....

By the time these regs have any noticable effect, economic factors will already have forced reality onto the delusional automakers and the sleepwalking public.

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what gas prices will be by 2016?

[Hekate]

4. Nice. Now if we could only do it with textbooks...

...and make Texas stop being the most influential factor in how they are written.

I am pleased that our coastal states are working on this, and that California is once again leading the way in environmental regs. With any luck Ahnold will be history before he can hand off too much of this stuff to his Repub and corporate pals.

Our federal government is being by and for profiteers and is being no help at all just now. Industrial self-regulation is a sick joke. I think environmental laws are ending up like medical marijuana: state by state by state.

Hekate

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Indeed, these actions by states on their own are increasing...

and they are evidence of the abandonment of the common good by those in charge of our federal government.

[natrat]

6. federal government evolving into promoting what is bad for citizens

and smog is not debatable