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I agree its a temporary solution, however, if such a small investment could reduce pollution now, why is the government fighting it?
Two reasons:
First, as they mention it's an 'unintended' result of the Clean Air Act. Yeah, right. The bush admin 'ammended' the Clean Air Act and also introduced the Clear Skies Act.
Those changes are whats blocking these from being sold elsewhere. It can be noted under bush's changes that companies were uncapped and all penalties for polluting were removed. The 'act' was altered to allow the exact opposite of what it was intended. This is another attempt by the bush administration to remove environmental protections.
In this case, they not only remove them, they keep them from being used in other areas, for no other reason than they don't want people being aware of such technology. I mean, if the average consumer knew they could reduce all pollution in cars, they might start buying these cars. That in turn would cause more government legislation into pollution with so many people getting involved, which is exactly what the bush admin does not want.
The second reason - all this equipment comes from Japan. Even the Ford Taurus that has this is using Japanese parts. If states are mandated (or allowed) to sell these cars, it is another nail in the coffin of US car companies. If other areas can sell them, and they take off, well, that means even less people buying American made cars.
If zero emissions is mandated by the government, US car makers can no longer sell cars without buying large systems to put in their cars that have to come from Japan.
So, in efforts to keep the people from getting environmentally active and seeing whats really happening and at the same time keeping foreign companies from taking a larger share of the auto market, the bush administration has seen fit to once again abuse the environment in the name of corporate american profits.
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