[davidlane]

The European Parliament's industry committee is pushing for auto manufacturers to be given an additional three years to hit the proposed European Union (EU)-wide 120g/km ceiling for carbon dioxide emissions (CO2).

The European Commission has proposed the industry should comply with this maximum by 2012, albeit with some built in flexibilities to accommodate concerns amongst manufacturers of larger cars.

But the committee - which usually takes the side of industrial interests when framing environmental legislation - wants manufacturers given significantly more time to adapt their engine and exhaust designs.

It has proposed that "in 2012 a quarter of a manufacturer's new cars, in 2013 half, in 2014 three-quarters and in 2015 all of them would have to achieve the target of 120g CO2/km, including the complementary measures."

http://www.just-auto.com/article.aspx?id=95873

 

[Bravada]

Oh do I hate the European institutions (now telling Belgian Christian family support centres not to discriminate against *** couples - have trouble with your *** relationship, go to your local parish of course - sheesh...), anyway, I hate them. For a long time now I've had the Schadenfreude of Europe not having something stupid like CAFE, but naturally regulating towards more fuel-efficient and environmentally-friendly cars by tweaking demand rather than supply, and now this idiocy.

Why can't I vote "disband" in the Europarliment elections?

 

[Smaart Aas Saabr]

Oh do I hate the European institutions (now telling Belgian Christian family support centres not to discriminate against *** couples - have trouble with your *** relationship, go to your local parish of course - sheesh...), anyway, I hate them. For a long time now I've had the Schadenfreude of Europe not having something stupid like CAFE, but naturally regulating towards more fuel-efficient and environmentally-friendly cars by tweaking demand rather than supply, and now this idiocy.

Why can't I vote "disband" in the Europarliment elections?

So Bravada was PL ascension into EU bad idea or acceptable?

 

[Neanderthal]

Considering that CO2-as-pollutant is a myth/fraud as is globaloney warming and that these con jobs like the EU and the UN will "stop war", they might as well pass some legislation outlawing low-sunspot-frequency global cooling.



As for voting to "disband" (good idea), I imagine a few more actions on the Rooskies' part and the senior, westernmost members will be tossing various members under the bus in an effort to save their sorry French asses soon enough.


These made-up USA-imitators, despite using "United" or some derivative of the word in their title and despite the occasional good intentions, are not united and they are not happy unions. Ask the people who got conned into voting yes.

 

[Bravada]

So Bravada was PL ascension into EU bad idea or acceptable?

The only sensible thing to do. There is a lot more good than bad about the EU, but the eurocracy certainly needs an overhaul.

LAMRONH, I also believe that we need to address this whole nonsense about the Earth being spherical (come on, we would've fallen off!), and rotating around the sun. Oh, and that evolution blabber - how on Earth was that supposed to happen if the world is only 8 thousand years old?