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Fri, 27/07/2007 - 7:58am — alex white

AUSTRALIA’S car industry has vowed to fight any moves to impose compulsory greenhouse gas emissions standards for new vehicles, despite such rules already applying in the United States and China.

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“As (General Motors) boss Bob Lutz has described it, that’s like trying to solve the nation’s obesity problem by saying that the clothing manufacturers are no longer allowed to manufacture larger sizes.”

(The Age)

Perhaps an emissions target for new cars is like the government trying to solve obesity by reducing the amount of fat and sugar that food producers put in their food…