Study on polluting vehicles has startling results

[AtomSmasher]

Heres Ohio State University's amazing results of a study on pollution and vehicles.

The study also found that the vehicles that polluted the most tended to be those that were older models, had higher mileage, poorer fuel economy, and were less-well-maintained.

Wow, amazing find, and they only had to study the results of nearly 4 million vehicles emission tests to come to this conclusion.  I'm so glad they did this study to enlighten us all.  I'm now off to try and get a grant too see which type of knives are better at cutting, sharp ones or dull ones.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/carpolut.htm

[mccoy178]

Go Bucks!

[DrewKaree]

Go Bucks!

How 'bout dem Badgers? 

[SirPoonga]

How about the The Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic?

[Dartful Dodger]

I'm so glad they did this study to enlighten us all.

The study wasn't about enlightening us, it's about distracting us, so when the man starts forcing us to surrender old cars to be scraped we wont put up a fight.  By we I mean the liberals, luckily the majority of Americans wont let it happen.

[Crazy Cooter]

Didn't they do that in Cali?  I remember a "Crusher Car" in one of the car mags a few years back...

[edit]
I found it.
Crusher Camaro by HotRod Magazine:
http://www.hotrod.com/projectbuild/42840/index.html
"A few years ago, the Unocal oil company convinced the government that older cars are a major cause of air pollution. Unocal also swung a deal to get pollution credits for destroying those cars, allowing the company to continue producing air pollution from refineries if it destroyed the equivalent number of cars that, in theory, would make the same amount of pollution in one year as the plant. The cars were purchased from individuals for about $700 each. Rumor has it that the smog credit from each car is worth around $1600 and that gas companies buy and sell the credits, but we couldn

[TOK]

There was a great study a while back relating to emissions that I wish I could find.
I'm into dirt bikes, and there is a push away from the two stroke engine due to its high pollution level. I think it was a motorcycle site that did the study, and they found that a 747 taking off one time produces more pollution than all the 2 stroke motorcycles in the country. This was a few years ago when the two stroke was much more prevalant.

The jist of the article was to show how the government could focus on the wrong things, and go for an "easy" target. Two strokes migh be a high pollution engine, but their relative output compared to the huge volume of other polluting things like planes, factories and trucks was negligable.

[Crazy Cooter]

<- also rides.

I think that started in California too.  Wasn't there something about banning 2-cycles by a certain date for "recreation"?  Or maybe that was a movie...

[Dartful Dodger]

California tried a few years ago.  That's how I got my Dart.
A few years ago the Midwest was flooded with old cars and parts that were being smuggled out of California. These rust free cars were never touched by snow or street salt and they were going cheap.  Every once in a while California does something good for the rest of the country.

[TOK]

California implemented a Green Sticker program that required bikes to be emissions compliant to be used on public land. Two strokes could still be used for closed course competition.
I don't know if it was ever enforced, but they also cracked down on cooking out.

Now that it sounds like most of the cool old cars are out of California, the next best thing it could for is is crack off the continent and sink into the ocean.