Post by Kasey Kagawa

You know, as much as Clarkson proclaims that Europe is the only truly civilized part of the world, and as controversial our government can be at times, at least (most of) our legislators aren’t completely out of their Goddamn minds.

British Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies has written part of a CO2 emissions proposal that would ban all cars capable of speeds over 101 MPH. His rationale is that “between 1994 and 2004 the power of new cars went up by 28 per cent, making them a lot heavier, and so increasing the amount of CO2 they put out, even though no country raised its speed limit to allow cars to use this increased power.” Now, despite the obvious total disconnect from reality that this demonstrates, I think that we should give this guy, and others like him, exactly what they want.

Hear me out on this one. This 101 MPH governor, proposals to force 90% reductions in CO2 emissions, and other similar suggestions from the radical environmental groups, should be instated as soon as humanly possible, not because I think they will work, but because people will see exactly how utterly insane these people are. Forced reductions in CO2 emissions of 70 or 90 percent would cut into a lot more than just soccer moms driving road-going leviathans. Shipping and air flight would have to be drastically reduced, and since many industrial processes that produce the raw chemicals that are required to produce almost every kind of synthetic material that we take for granted produce huge amounts of CO2 as a byproduct, plastics and other synthetic materials would become exceedingly rare. Power production would plummet, and we’d all basically be forced back into the Middle Ages. I’d think after a few weeks or months of this, people would realize that what is being asked for is not a mild inconvenience, but the end of our civilization as we know it, and then we’d be able to get on with finding actual answers and solutions based on real science instead of sound bites.

MEPs call for ban on fast cars [Autocar]