i know that honda for one (and maybe others) makes all their cars conform to california smog rules, i've even heard that people have attempted suicide with newer hondas and been unable to do it. seems kinda doubtful to me with CO in the exhaust but maybe the garage was slightly ventilated.
it'd be nice to see some tax breaks for car companies that say, conform their fleet to a certain LEV and ULEV percentage, kind of a similar idea (but less teethy) to california's CARB regulations.
chemical plants, heavy duty industry, car emissions, the companies that own them all say that they can't retool cheaply but they build new facilities and junk the old ones once in awhile. would it be so hard to enact legislation that requires a given industry to drastically reduce the harmful output of their next projects without forcing them to scrap what they're working with now, which would cost jobs and thus be unpopular?
i'm ALL FOR reducing emissions, it is a very smart thing to do. but there is no need to be alarmist and flip out and tax everything, that just polarizes and camps everyone in the debate.
look at this thread for example. if you think that gore is playing hard and loose with the data and is showing us a skewed and agendad perspective and that we should look at all the data we can, well you might as well be the antichrist nuking the rainforest.
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