A Canadian firm has released a new catalytic converter for cars that removes almost all pollutants from auto exhausts. It will take a stream from a regular converter and remove a further 98% of the pollutants. A regular converter costs $300 to the industry. This one costs $1400. Do you think all the Hollywood phonies will be putting these on their cars, to show what good enviro-citizens they are?? Not likely. You know why? Because you can't SEE it, the way you can a Toyota Prius, so there's nothing for the average Hollywoodite to parade around and preen about and boast about what great environmentalists they are.
How about getting Kyoto to MANDATE putting it on all cars produced world-wide? Not likely EITHER since the CHINESE and INDIANS (2.3 billion people) don't even have REGULAR (that have been on American cars since 1976) catalytic converters.
My car cost about $40,000. If it means spending $2800 (cost of two new converters) to outfit it with a device that renders it less polluting than a cigarette lighter, I'm all for it. PROVIDED it is mandated that ALL cars produced have it from NOW on.
The gauntlet is down, phony enviro-leftists, Hollywood trendies and Asiatics; Pick it up, I DARE you! PROVE you aren't just anti-Western CLOWNS, that the Kyoto Accord isn't just a FRAUD designed to shift wealth and jobs east and that you DO care about air pollution.