Better fuel efficiency saves money, resources
With gas prices skyrocketing, we have big economic troubles. But we also have a huge opportunity.
Global warming is a serious problem, and we need to take action as a state. Cars and SUVs account for 25 percent of North Carolina’s global warming pollution.
Why not trim the fat? The secret to cutting that pollution is fuel efficiency, which also sounds great to my pocketbook.
Pricey Harrison, our local state representative, is calling for the Clean Cars Bill — tougher emissions standards for new cars and SUVs. Let’s get the rest of the legislature behind her, pass this legislation and curb global warming and our spending at once.
Liz Schmitt
Greensboro
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Explain how different states setting different standards for automobile manufacture is going to help your pocketbook Liz. Answer, it won't. In fact it will raise the cost. Typical.....whenever I hear that more regulation will save money the opposite is usually true.
Perhaps we could be like California, the land of banned trans fats. Starting with '09 models, new cars in CA must be labeled with a global warming score. Kid you not.
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2008/07/07/cars-california-global-warming-score
Posted on August 1, 2008 6:29 AM
"Global warming is a serious problem,"
No, the gullibility of the American people and their psychological need to have a boogie-man in their lives on a daily basis is a "serious problem".
Posted on August 1, 2008 11:53 AM
Liz, maybe you should look at Pricey and her connections to Phillips Lighting? Maybe we should outlaw newspapers and save trees.
Posted on August 1, 2008 7:51 PM