Re: W. on the Environment

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 10:27 PM 5/19/01 +0200, Sonja wrote:
>Dan Minette schreef:
>
> > >California pioneered automobile emissions standards and I believe 
> still has
> > >the strictest laws on the books.
> >
> > Those are good things, but they do lower gas mileage, thus increasing the
> > energy used per mile.
>
>The idea of emission standards is to decrease the energy used per mile. Less
>energy used also means less emission. Or at least that is the idea behind the
>concept of emission standards here in Europe.


When emission control devices were first introduced, many people 
disconnected them because they got better gas mileage (used less gasoline) 
without them.  Of course, it is virtually impossible to make such a 
comparison today, because disconnecting all such devices on a contemporary 
car would render it inoperable.



-- Ronn!  :)