They're not talking about 70's cars.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA546CAFEStandards.html
Of course the not-at-all unexpected blow back to this was the call to ban heavier vehicles.
PCBs, lead pipes, and asbestos are toxic. Incandescent light bulbs are not. CFL's are. Go figure.
You might think that limiting air conditioning or how much heat you can use is dramatic... but it has already come up and will certainly come up again. (look up Programmable Communicating...
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Then why not go whole hog and have Congress step in and control our heating and cooling too? Get rid of Air Conditioners, put temperature controls on our heat. Heating and cooling count for 56% of our energy use compared to the piddly amount we use on lighting.
They should tell...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6211261.ece
'a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of green lightbulbs in cost-cutting factories.
Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent...