OAKLAND, Calif. -- California is making it mandatory for cars to be labeled with global warming scores, figures that take into account emissions from vehicle use and fuel production.
The law requiring the labels goes into effect at the start of next year for all 2009 model cars, though its expected the labels will be popping up on cars in the coming months.
The labeling law forces cars for sale to display a global warming score, on a scale of one to 10, which is based on how vehicles in the same model year compare to one another. The higher the score, the cleaner a car is. The score takes into account emissions related to production of fuel for each vehicle as well as the direct emissions from vehicles.
Now I am sitting here in July with a sweatshirt and socks on because it is a blistering 64 degrees outside...thinking to myself: Since I am in the market for a new car, let me just say right now that I will not be purchasing anything with a score higher than 3.
And I want the vehicle to come with a trailer hitch just so I can pull along some burning trash as I drive.
Anything to drive my long-haired, lost-in-Haight-Ashbury, hippie-freak neighbor crazy...
7 comments:
Wow.
Do you guys even have a legislature in California? I wonder because it seems like any idiot off the street can pass a law...that is if he's dressed appropriately, you know, like in Birks and a quilted skirt made in Guatemala.
Hey our legislature is busy passing important laws such as banning mylar balloons. You know...for the children.
Our ballot measures don't mean jack-s#!+ either. This place legislates by the gavel. Propositions against gay marriage passed by 65%, propositions to eliminate state financial aid and services to illegal aliens passed by 69%, and both were over-turned by the s#!+heels in the 9th Circuit. Why would this latest "Vehicle Eco-GPA" come as any surprise?!
Do you guys even have a legislature in California?
Yes, we do. And that's the problem.
Nigel: every time I hear of mylar balloons, I think of a prank in a verrrry evil book by a self-described 'master of dirty tricks'
Is it true, I idly wonder, that several mylar balloons, when tied together and released under those high-tension power lines, will cause a short of absolutely Biblical Proportions?
Just asking.
Bsmith, according to our state lawmakers, Mylar balloons are responsible for hitting powerlines and shorting out the entire California energy grid, and when those power lines fall to the ground,they cause the entire state to catch fire, which causes our undocumented immigrant population to become disenfranchised which increases gang activity which leads to earthquakes, floods and Lindsey Lohan becoming a lesbian.
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