Car Culture

The following is the opinion piece from today's WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119482485706289507.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks). The leaders of the WSJ say that Governor Schwarzenegger is wrong to pursue helping the environment by limiting car pollution in his state. I think California has every right to decide this since the EPA has failed to significantly raise fuel standards since the 1970s. All the while oil is skyrocketing and pollution from cars around the world is burgeoning. Oddly, one of the WSJ's alternative suggestions is to add a massive tax to gasoline. (This coming from the very bastion of anti-taxes! ....Obviously they have little imagination in bluffing us.) Taxes in fact may be a great idea, but the WSJ knows that would never pass in the state–and a tax would have less impact on helping clean up the environment. (People in light of a tax would continue to drive and simply pay more.) In my perspective, Arnold has proposed the best solution. And, I think Bloomberg would agree, too.