With the Bush administration’s support, Congress is pushing to increase fuel economy standards for American autos. The measure is supposed to save energy and reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil, but these rules have proved far more effective at increasing automaker costs and killing drivers.
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When Nobel laureate Al Gore collects his peace prize in Oslo on Monday, he should tell the gathered Norwegians exactly what he meant when he remarked about global warming:
"I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are," Gore said in the May 9, 2006, issue of Grist magazine.
"Overrepresentation"? Is that anything like "misrepresentation"?
Offering Americans cars they do not want is a recipe for economic disaster. Doug Bandow, CEI, says the proposal could cost the major U.S. automakers $110 billion to retool their assembly lines, at a time when they are reeling from huge pension and health insurance costs.
By 2010, China would produce over 40 per cent of world coal output, compared to 38 per cent in 2006.
From 2002 to 2006, China's coal production saw average annual growth of 13 per cent, reaching 2.38 billion tons in 2006.
An unofficial document prepared by China demands that leading industrialized nations significantly cut their greenhouse gas emissions as part of an international framework on ways to reduce such emissions after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Monday.
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