E.U. agrees on emission rules for cars 4

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   Alison Wiley Posted 11:40 pm
   01 Dec 2008

   We can do better than that!The degree of change we need to navigate in the developed world is much greater than 18 percent fleet emission reduction by 2015. The auto industry needs to accept an ongoing downsizing (the world already has way more cars than it needs) and many autoworkers need to retrain for different industries.
   
   Moreover, everyone who has a car of any type has the option of reducing their own emissions by 18% right now (not waiting for 2015) by driving less via trip-chaining, carpooling, walking, biking, working from home, etc. More at http://diamondcutlife.org/
   
   Alison in Portland, Oregon

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   guade00 Posted 1:12 am
   02 Dec 2008

   SurrenderThe politicos have capitulated once again to the auto industry, this time in Europe. Surrender is such an ugly thing.

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   mtvyfan Posted 4:57 am
   02 Dec 2008

   The car companies are gonna start whining in EUOnce they see that people like in the US are not willing to buy their gas guzzlers and start crying and whining for money like the US automakers. You'd think they would learn a lesson from what's happening in the US.

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   DebraB Posted 7:20 pm
   03 Dec 2008

   Who wants big cars anyway?Though the short term target has been diluted with phase ins and loopholes, the longer term target is actually quite an achievement. It wasn't even in the original proposals.
   But whatever the targets, the market is changing.  This year in the EU people have been choosing smaller cars and if one carmaker doesn't produce what people want to buy, they'll go to someone else who will.
   http://weblog.greenpeace.org/cars/

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