CARB requires all new cars in California to bear "green" labels
As of January 1, 2009, all vehicles sold in California will be required to display a window sticker that rates the "environmental performance" of the new car or truck. Initiated by the California EPA Air Resources Board (CARB), the label is designed to "...arm consumers with the information they need to choose a vehicle that saves gas, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps fight smog all at once." Each vehicle will receive two different scores. The first will be a "Global Warming Score" based on greenhouse gas emissions from operating the vehicle and fuel production. The second score will be a "Smog Score" that is determined by the smog-forming emissions from operating the vehicle. The scale, based on a 1-10 rating, allows consumers to see how their vehicle fares when compared to other vehicles in the class. Like the new governmental crash test data now displayed on new car windows, the disclosure will be effective on two fronts: it will educate concerned buyers, and unofficially call-out those manufacturers that fall below the average. In this environmentally-conscience environment, there is nothing quite as effective as public shame...
[Source: The Detroit News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
mk 5:09PM (6/30/2008)
Bullcrap on a stick. That is all.
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richmajor86 2:08PM (7/01/2008)
This really is utter cr&p, In a recent study to find out best cars for the enviroment, the Toyota Prius came in something like 75th!! The best, Toyota Landcruiser, Although whilst driving, they produce more bad things to kill polar bears, the materials they are mad from, and becuase they last so long, they have a tiny overall effect on the enviroment, unlike that ugly prius, which no doubt will score 10s on that scale.
What happens to those batteries when they need replacing in 10 years? WIll it be viable to get new ones, or will you just get read of the whole car? How will it be dispossed of?
No such problem for the landcrusier, which will last almost forever.
Rick 5:12PM (6/30/2008)
Similar to the tags on a frig or water heater showing energy usage.
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psu48187 5:22PM (6/30/2008)
Wait a second....
We have the Window Sticker, Parts Origin Sitcker, The 'You will die because this car has all kinda of chemicals' sticker and now this one. I wonder if people will leave this on their car like they do with the Prop. 65 warning stickers.
Meanwhile the state bans you from talking on cell phones, but the ban doesn't encompass texting. Priorities, Priorities...
And yes I live in CA....
why not the LS2LS7? 5:37PM (6/30/2008)
Very similar. And we all know how those led to the downfall of western civilization.
Rocketboy 9:44AM (7/01/2008)
Rick... wait, what? The tag on my fridge, my washer, and my dryer all stated how much ENERGY it would use. Sorta like, oh, the MPG that's already on the car. There were no tags on them that would tell you how much you would make the flowers cry.
TJ 5:14PM (6/30/2008)
I fear for the country my kids will grow up in.
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Bill P. 5:16PM (6/30/2008)
Alright, something's got to be done about this crap. "Global Warming Score? How about a "Tooth Fairy Score"?
We can only hope that the vile fraud that is "man-made global warming" will one day be relegated to a museum, a few paces down the hall from the 8-track and "the new ice age".
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why not the LS2LS7? 5:28PM (6/30/2008)
Ignore the figure on the sticker if you don't believe in man-made global warming. It can't be that much harder than ignoring the evidence about man-made global warming, and seem to be able to manage that.
CarbonBlack 5:37PM (6/30/2008)
Bill, +1
TwinTurboVR4 5:48PM (6/30/2008)
why not the ls2ls7?: and what exactly is the proof that humans have anything to do with climate change? The climate has been changing constantly and drastically since long before we were here. You cant judge a warming or cooling of the planet on less than 200 years of data. It's not long enough.
why not the LS2LS7? 6:08PM (6/30/2008)
I didn't say proof, I said evidence. You're right, we don't have proof. Then again, you can't prove the sun will come up tomorrow. And yet, people make plans assuming it will.
The evidence we have right now is circumstantial and merely relates the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (or more accurately, trapped in ice) to the temperature of the Earth at the time. It's unclear if this shows a causal relationship, or if it does, in which direction the cause and effect go.
The question really comes (in my mind) down to that if we know the potential damages easily roll into the trillions and the cost of preventing it is in the mere billions, wouldn't be be smarter not to roll those dice and instead spend the money to control CO2/carbon?
Cameron 6:37PM (6/30/2008)
Regardless of Man's impact on the Earth's climate, there is still WAY too much pollution.
John 8:41PM (6/30/2008)
"Global warming" (I think liberals just call it climate change now because they too know it's crap) is nothing more than the latest disaster in the making to get people to live on communes and ride bikes like the Chinese communists in did in the 1950's.
'60s - overpopulation
'70's - global cooling
'80's & 90's - ozone layer
2000's - global warming
2010's - ??? (something more scary, for sure)
I'm tired of global warming. Isn't it time for Al Gore and the libs to dream up another man made disaster?
Quicksilver 10:55PM (6/30/2008)
I'm building a steam-powered car that runs off coal. CARB can kiss my ***.
Jean 3:14AM (7/01/2008)
Yup. 10 years from now we will all be sitting around going, "Remember that whole global warming scare?" "Yeah! We really got caught up in that, huh!?" Total BS.
Vintage 9:23AM (7/01/2008)
I used to think global warming was BS, and then I read national geographic's issue all about global warming. They provide a very strong case, I suggest you check it out and decide for yourselves.
CH 5:06AM (7/03/2008)
Well, Global warming was happening since the earth existed, as well as Global cooling. This is a natural process of the earth we live on.
We might have done something to change the cycle but i don't think so. On the other hand, imagine if all of a sudden we all stopped producing pollutants. Ever heard of global dimming? If all man-made pollution would stop suddenly, within one week we couldn't leave our homes because the atmosphere would have less obstacles for the sun to shine through consequentially the earth would warm up even more.
Yar 5:16PM (6/30/2008)
Wonder how many natural resources are consumed having to print out extra labels...
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the friendly grizzly 6:00PM (6/30/2008)
Don't worry; the law states the labels must be printed on recycles paper, using soy inks.