On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:54:52 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote:



One doesn't have to be rich to afford an SUV, and SUVs have to meet
the same emission laws as any other vehicle, so if they are "spewing
insane amounts of sickening fumes" then so are little econoboxes. In
California they are now putting emission controls on motorcycles and I
understand that lawn mowers are going to be next--they've reached the
point of diminishing returns with cars, SUVs, and trucks.

AFAIK, the Federal emissions laws for vehicle manufacturers still have a sliding
scale for fuel economy and if they make enough 30 mpg cars they can make "X"
number of 10 mpg trucks and SUV's..

Then, California puts stuff in the unleaded fuel that's supposed to make it burn
cleaner..
2 results from that are that they found out that the additives were poisoning
the ground water and that you got less mpg with the "cleaner" fuel, so you
needed to burn more gas and make more emissions to go the same distance...

Glad we're out of all that craziness now...


mac

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