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09:25 - Please be April Fool's
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=19598
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C'mon, California. I turn my back for a year and this is what you do? Run out of money and start scheming to ban black cars because of the profound effect it'll have on environmental effects we can't even tell for sure are happening? Don't make me come over there.
Jet-black automotive paintjobs could be regulated out of existence in the US if proposals under consideration by the California Air Resources Board are followed through.
Apparently the CARB is getting hot under the collar about the extra carbon being consumed by California residents turning-up the air-con to cool their sun-drenched black cars. The Board has already set new rules in place that will force manufacturers to increase the solar reflectiveness of future paint coatings, as well as improve the thermal efficiency of automotive glazing. It believes more stringent rules in this area could save nearly a million tons of CO2 per year by 2020.
Someday we'll look at this stuff and laugh. Today is not that day. Today we're reduced to treating your choice of car color as a grand expression of personal liberty in the face of tyranny.
Via CapLion.
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Brian Tiemann
