"Help The Planet, Save Money & Brag About It"

If you have not already heard, the Supreme Court ruled that he EPA (environmental protection agency) will not be able to regulate co2 under the “Clean Air Act”.

Read the story first, then let me know how you feel about this regulation.

This has been in place in the UK for a long time, and so I really don’t have a problem with it. I think it’s wonderful when a government becomes proactive in protecting our planet and wish it happened more.

I think that regulation is fine as long as it done in a sensible manner - I don’t want to see car manufacturers going out of business because they don’t produce the cleanest cars in the world.

Some cars pollute more than others, that is true more so now than ever. In the UK, this is dealt with two-fold:

1. Cars can only produce a certain level of various substances. Those that produce more than this are deemed unfit and will not be given a valid MOT certificate unless work is carried out to remedy the problem.

2. Heavier polluting cars, such as 4x4’s, are taxed to the hilt whereas owners of smaller engined, more environmentally friendly cars are given more of a break.

I’m uncertain as to how I feel about this setup - On one hand I applaud them for encouraging people to drive more environmentally friendly vehicles, though I don’t feel that those wanting to (or needing to?) drive bigger vehicles should be as heavily punished - Perhaps manufacturers or even Governments should be taking steps towards making such vehicles less of a burden on the environment?

I don’t think that car manufacturers would go out of business, and if they did it would only be because they were unwilling to bend to competition. Competition is always a good thing for the consumer, and in this case I believe it is a good thing for the environment too.

Car manufacturers will have to do what they did when inventions like airbags and seatbelts became standard - adapt.

I am for emissions regulations, but I also think it’s going to be tough for some people to afford a new vehicle, so we need to find a way to make it possible for even middle and poor class to purchase a cleaner vehicle or work on technology to add to existing vehicles and retrofit them.

I am in total agreement to the government stepping in on this.  We have emission testing for our cars every two years and now the government is putting a sur-tax on the gas guzzlers and giving a break to the people who buy economy style automobiles.

If the truth were actually discussed here the truth would be that all of the car manufacturers have the knowledge to build better cars for the economy that will travel many more miles per litre/gallon of gasoline but they won’t make them and they hide the drawing in vaults.

There have been manufacturers of economy automobiles that will not cost an arm and a leg to manufacture and are environmentally friendly and all the BIG THREE do is buy out their inventions and hide them from the public because they get kickbacks on gasoline sales and they can keep charging astronomical prices for the cars they are building.

The only way to defeat them is to stop buying these gas guzzlers and start only buying the economy cars even if that means buying foreign cars like the volkswagons, etc.  Then the BIG THREE will start feeling it in their pockets and start looking at being in competition with the foreign made cars.

Then you will start to see economy cars on the road that are good for the environment and don’t cost an arm and a leg and sometimes two legs.

Yea i think you are right Sweet, I was undecided for a while but in the end I think it is a good thing.

[quote author=“hoosierhunter”]Car manufacturers will have to do what they did when inventions like airbags and seatbelts became standard - adapt.

I am for emissions regulations, but I also think it’s going to be tough for some people to afford a new vehicle, so we need to find a way to make it possible for even middle and poor class to purchase a cleaner vehicle or work on technology to add to existing vehicles and retrofit them.

Hunter you really hit this one on the head…. They would have to adapt and make it affordable at the same time.