While there's some to argue with in the author's story, I'm glad she chose to do it, so that's good. I wondered about this claim, below, that the EPA forces automakers to meet a ZEV standard by 2003. I assume that this is mistaken and that the author is confusing the Cal EPA with CARB. Am I mistaken? I know that some other states have talked about adopting California standards as a measure, but I am not aware of any Federal thing that mirrors that Cal Thing.
There is such a thing as the Cal EPA http://www.calepa.ca.gov/ and it is they who visited the midwest and did research on ethanol on behalf of the governor and reported back to him and to CARB (at least I think this was the structure of things but I probably have some of it wrong) as to whether ethanol was the best way to satisfy the oxygenate mandate. There gist of their findings were, I think, that ethanol did help clean air in some ways but not in others, and that from a scientific standpoint there were better less-dated ways to satisfy clean-air goals. I am not voicing agreement, just passing on what I heard. >http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12917 > >Who's Driving Whom? > >Currently, car manufacturers that distribute in the United States are >producing cleaner cars. They have to because the Environmental >Protection Agency makes them. By 2003, zero-emission vehicles must >make up 10 percent of each major automaker's stock. However, >manufacturers apparently aren't required to make these cars entirely >available to the public. They only need to meet their quota of >zero-emission vehicles. Then dealers get to decide which cars to >push, and buyers get to pick the ones they want. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
