[geeks] Global Warming questions...

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> car crusher bills are an example of this.  every one i've heard of
> doesn't call for actually measuring the emitted pollution of the
> crushed car but is based on some gerrymandered estimate of what it
> might possibly emit, and further ignores the recycling pollution and
> landfill pollution of unrecyclable bits [as much as half the car] -
> not to mention the manufacturing pollution of the car that replaces
> the crushed one.
> 
> i've heard of studies - with names like the epa on them - that state
> that if you really want to be green, the lightest use of resources is
> to maintain your old car and keep it on the road.

The other side of the coin is clean-air measures that impose even
tighter restrictions on the barely-polluting 70%-or-so of new and nearly
new cars on the road, but simply ignore the 5% to 10% of old clunkers
and smog-exempt classic cars that are (by some estimates) responsible
for up to 60% of the total vehicular air pollution.

One could, of course, assume that they're simply hoping for attrition to
eventually take care of the clunkers.


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