California Air Quality in the Courts: Zero-Emission Vehicles
In 1990, the California Air Resources Board adopted a regulation requiring that 2% of new car sales by 1998. 5% by 2001 and 10% of all large automobiles sold from 2003 onward be zero-emission vehicles (ZEV's) — cars powered by electricity or alternative fuels, like hydrogen. The idea was to encourage auto companies to incubate new technology rather than simply make internal combustion engines cleaner. In other words, to go from designing vehicles that would pollute less to vehicles that wouldn't pollute at all. (The California Air Resources Board provides more information on the Zero-Emission Vehicle Program.)
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/caautoemissions2.htmlNow the steroid crazed gropenator Governor Hydrogen Hummer has learned the
secret of California environmental politcs: What you
promise is more important than what you do.
In another one of those
by such-and-such a year statements worthy of Greenpeace types, the Gropenator has announced that California will
cap Greenhouse gases by
2020 by which time of course, the long term effects of steroids will almost certainly have killed him.
What is more incredible is that there are people
stupid enough to buy into this crap:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California would become the first state to impose a limit on all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from industrial plants, under a landmark deal reached Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative Democrats. The agreement marks a clear break with the Bush administration and puts California on a path to reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an estimated 25 percent by 2020.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/climate_changeI guess Governor Hydrogen Hummer boy is burnishing his credentials as an environmentalist.
Of course there is
no discussion of
how this piece of glorious legislation will actually
work.