New Cars in California Must Display Global Warming Score

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[Professional Engineer]

ROFL, I like it.

[MaxMax]

carbon credit tax applied to the cost of vehicles that don’t meet the standard.

No way, they'll keep changing the standard to continue raising taxes.

[ConservativeMan55]

Exactly.. because new taxes are never repealed.

[andy58-in-nh]

[ConservativeMan55]

Exactly....

[RC2]

California needs to be split into two states. San Franfreeco and Oakland need to be in Southern California.

[stravinskyrules]

Hilarious. Cigarettes are legal and they are jumping through hoops to let you know how dangerous the habit is......but yet it's legal.

Makes no sense.

[RightWhale]

This is a fascist tactic.

[KarlInOhio]

Through a study by CNW Marketing called “Dust to Dust,” the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.

That study came to its conclusions by making a HUGE estimate on the cost of disposing of it. $3.25/mile for 100,000 miles = $325,000. Even if the car were made from pure energy (no labor, no materials, just pump in electricity and out come the cars), that would leave about $300,000 to run and dispose of it. 40 mpg and $4/gallon would be $10,000 for fuel. Toss on a few thousand extra for repairs and consumables (also made from pure energy for this thought experiment) and you still have over $280,000 left for the disposal expense.

[ConservativeMan55]

And even if you don’t live in California.. this is a sneek peek at what the rest of the country will soon be facing.....

[GOP_Raider]

Somebody needs to find the anti-smoking poster of Nazi Germany to juxtapose with that.

[ConservativeMan55]

Hmmm I will see if I can find that...

[ConservativeMan55]

California is the first state of pass such as law, and a similar law will take effect in New York for 2010 model year vehicles. Global warming scores will be included on the state’s DriveClean website.

While this law is intended to help consumers take into account emissions while purchasing cars, a proposed law in the European Union would require E.U. public sector bodies put a price on emissions.

A law endorsed by the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety would make governments put a monetary cost on the emissions of vehicles they plan to purchase, and add that to expense calculations. The law would exclude certain types of vehicles, such as ambulances and fire trucks.

[econjack]

I used to own a cabin 300 miles north of Toronto, and about 100 miles due East of Sudbury. I've driven from my cabin to Sudbury about 6 times and the first part of the trip has an environment you'd expect: Beautiful forests and lakes filled with wildlife. As the trip progresses, the forests disappear, the lakes are a beautiful blue, but are totally devoid of either plant or animal life because of acid rain. Within 50 miles of Sudbury, the landscape is mostly rock with little soil and almost no vegetation. I've seen "the Stack" and you can almost draw a line from its base north-south and everything to the east is dead, and to the west, because of the prevailing westerly winds, only partially dead.

Canada is working to fix the problem, but it will be decades before the east recovers, if ever.

[The Louiswu]

The Louiswu 1 - Global Warming - 0

What a bunch of dunces.

[commonguymd]

Or they can just have the owners of gas guzzlers wear a yellow arm band perhaps. /s

[dalereed]

I’ll bet the lifetime cost/mile of my 1965 Chevy PU with 1,300,000 miles in it is under 25 cents!

[ConservativeMan55]

That’ll be the next thing....

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