jus2shy wrote:
It's sad that China is only now realizing their mistake of being so lax'd on emissions. They've already rolled out a strategy to ramp up their emissions control efforts to achieve near Euro 5 by 2020 or something like that. China is also pushing EV's really hard. It was sad to look at how Smoggy Beijing was before the Olympics in 2008, then 2 weeks of little driving cleared the city right up. Heck, no-car days in Paris also dramatically cleans up the air there and other big European cities have experimented with no-car days. I personally hope to never see a no-car day here in the U.S., but in order for that to happen with the relative population growth and density, our vehicles must be cleaner (whether electric or ICE).
Very good idea. Would be very hard to do in the US as public transport, nowhere as prevalent as in Europe. China is a basket case, Communist Party members move to the Mountains or Countryside to escape Bejing's lethal pollution.
Still US could do more. 5 US Cities are listed as Clean cities as against 11 European Clean cities