EU Frustrates Green Car Production
Did your grandparents ever make you orange squash when you were a kid? Mine did, and I could always tell who had made it by how watery it was. Yech!
So it is with EU legislation. It’s not a question of if it’s going to be watered down, but by how much. For example, efforts to cut vehicle CO2 emissions have been drastically undermined thanks to sustained lobbying from the motor industry.
The original proposal was to cut all new vehicle emissions from around 160 g/km to 120 g/km by 2012, backed up with a fine of €90 for every g/km emitted over the limit by a manufacturer’s average vehicle.
