EU ROW BREWING OVER AUTO EMISSIONS
March 1st, 2008
By Alan Osborn
A mighty battle is about to be fought out in Europe over something called "the slope of the curve" and no, it's not a beauty contest and it has nothing to do with landscaping or geometry - this is all about curbing CO2 emissions from new automobiles.
The background is a conclusion reached by the European Commission just over a year ago that a long-standing voluntary agreement by auto-makers to cut back average carbon dioxide emissions simply wasn't delivering the goods and that binding legislation would have to be brought in. The new ...
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