Sean Gosiewski wrote:
I turn my car off at every red light.
This most likely makes the problem worse. The emissions released during vehicle startup are much worse than idling for a few seconds at a light. Or so I'm told.
Let's also help make less-polluting hybrid electric cars more accessible in MN by supporting the bills to be introduced by Scott Dibble and Frank Hornstein to reduce the cost barriers people face to purchase hybrid electric cars http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5222114.html
Hybrids are not a panacea. I have it from an expert in the field that there's nothing a hybrid can do that we can't already do with conventional vehicles today as long as we are willing to pay for materials and technology. Raising the CAFE standards and removing the light truck/SUV exemption would do much more to clean our air.
That's not to say hybrids are useless. They are a necessary stepping stone to cleaner vehicles.
But in addition to hybrids, we ought to be fully funding and encouraging development and use of mass transit. MnPASS and FAST lanes don't help with that! We ought to be building Central, Southwest, Rush Line, Cedar, Northwest, Northstar and Red Rock _today_, not starting in 2008 with inadequate funding for one corridor as the governor has proposed.
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