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E.U. agrees on emission rules for cars

Posted at 4:56 AM on 02 Dec 2008

The European Union has reportedly struck a deal with the bloc's automakers, agreeing to rules that would see car manufacturers cut their fleets' emissions 18 percent by 2015 and 40 percent by 2020. The E.U. had proposed a tougher standard last year, but heavy lobbying from automakers successfully diluted the goals.

source: Reuters

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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

by Alison Wiley at 6:40 AM on 02 Dec 2008

Surrender

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

by guade00 at 8:12 AM on 02 Dec 2008

The car companies are gonna start whining in EU

Once 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.

"For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, until then may I too abide, to dispel the misery of the world." - Shantideva

by mtvyfan at 11:57 AM on 02 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/

by DebraB at 2:20 AM on 04 Dec 2008

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