Posted on 01/06/2009 8:48:12 PM PST by smokingfrog
If you're in the market for a new car, you may have a new tool at your disposal to help you decide-- depending on where you live. Vermont is the first New England state - and will be one of at least 13 states across the country - to adopt a new regulation-- requiring new cars to be sold with an environmental performance label. At 'Courtesy Toyota' in Berlin, Vermont, owner Dave Birmingham is ready for a change. In part, because he has to be. Dave Birmingham\Courtesy Toyota "I think most dealers probably know it's inevitable." What's inevitable is that Vermont dealers will have to sell new cars with new labels. This past weekend, a new rule adopted by the state legislature in 2007 went into effect-- requiring all 2010 and newer cars, light trucks, and SUVs to carry labels with smog and global warming ratings. Harold Garabedian "The real intent is to educate consumers.” "Until this label has been here, there's been no simple, uniform way for consumers to compare vehicles against each other." The labels are modeled after ones used in California, which has similar requirements.
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I don’t know what the problem is here. This isn’t just any old smog; it’s made-in-Vermont smog! Doesn’t that mean it’s good? I thought that to airy-fairy greeny weeny types, “made in Vermont” means wonderful.
Well that just makes me want to run out and buy 3 cars tomorrow.
Is it any wonder our nation is in the terrible shape it is in? Have our politicians got nothing better to do than to waste time on crap like this?
To hell with all of them!
Sounds like a real dumbass idea to me but there’s a lot of that going around these days.
What really sucks is in many areas of life we don’t have a non-green choice. Like my car gets far better millage then I care for it to make. So I perform anti-environmental offsets. For example with each fill up I go through the McDonalds drive through and eat a couple of value meals while the car idles (producing burgers causes cow farts that promote global warming). I then drive down the road and throw my garbage into pristine rivers and try to run down rabbits or squirrels or something. It makes me feel better about my contribution.
Can’t they also require labels that measure the car in terms of the percentage of hope it contains and the percentage of change it has?
I heard some fool/tool yesterday at my watering hole spinning out the same old drivel about how car companies have sequestered the technology that would allow them to install carbuerators that would deliver 85 - 90 mpg - gee, d’ya think that one company might not have already jumped at that to corner the market? Naw, never occurred to ya, did it, idjit.
Far easier to just set out a used hubcap with gasoline in it in the yard on a “Spare the Air” day here in CA...
Projects like this create jobs for people making the labels.
Your basic "make work" program.
Wait until the impose the cow flatulence tax. That will wake them up in the People’s Republic.
Mickey D’s hasn’t offered enough anti-enviro options ever since they gave up the styrofoam sandwich boxes. The double one for the old McDLT was the crowning glory of their line, with its glorious double box: cold half with top bun and condiments, hot half with burger and bottom bun. Fortunately, I have saved one and keep it in a shrine together with a stuffed passenger pidgeon and an old CFC aerosol can. I perform genuflections each evening in the sure and certain knowledge that one day, Jim Watt and Helen Chenoweth will return and lead us to a golden age. *big grin*
How about an old can of R-12 refrigerant to go with the collection....:^)
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