But will the political "scabs" disappear as well? How much is all this saber rattling doing to our respective economies? How much damage is being done to the old car culture - again - in the name of emissions? How many old Firebirds - maybe even RA cars! - went to the crusher for pollution "credits"?
How much energy does it actually take to produce a new car? How much pollution is produced to make a new Prius? Does that really offset what an older but decently maintained car would produce?
Should we subsidize the purchase of these cars? Canada is giving people money after they buy one of the "approved" new cars to encourage more sales! How stupid is that! This is a program that is retroactive! The people bought the cars without the incentive yet they get a chunk of free money (well, taxpayers money, which to most politicians is the same thing)! Shouldn't this money stay in the hands of the regular people, who can't afford to buy gas let alone a new car?
By the way, here in Canada we're still getting ripped off on gas prices. Locally we're paying the equivalent of US$3.94 per US gallon.
One conspiracy theory was that the Kyoto protocol had more to do with crippling the North American economies than preventing global warming.
