On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:48:58AM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Very good for car buffs, very bad for air quality. > Older cars can generate 10X as much emmissions. > The best thing to clean up air polution in the US > would be to put a bounty on old, beater cars. > Regards, Bob S.
Hardly. First, fix the emissions from coal burning power stations, chemical plants, and the like. Second, deal with big old dirty diesel engines in trucks, tractors, etc. Even then, you're not down to emissions from old-model cars; they contribute less to air quality problems than there is from lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and recreational vehicles. Admittedly, any step is worthwhile - there have been programs that offer a financial incentive for taking an older vehicle off the road. But these often seem to be action taken so that action can be seen to be being taken, rather than any serious effort to fix the problem. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
