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Green Cars You Can't Buy
Geoffrey.landis writes "Auto industry blogger Lawrence Ulrich notes that Honda is now making a "Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle" (or PZEV for short) version of the 2008 Accord, an all-new vehicle that is redesigned to meet California emission standards. He notes "So, just how green is a PZEV machine? Well, if you just cut your lawn with a gas mower, congratulations, you just put out more pollution in one hour than these cars do in 2,000 miles of driving."
But the irony is that it's actually illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states they were designed for! Apparently, anybody selling one of these ultra-green vehicles out of the correctly-designated venue — which means either California, or seven northeast-states with similar pollution laws — "could be subject to civil fines of up to $27,500. Volvo sent its dealers a memo alerting them to this fact, noting that its greenest S40 and V50 models were only for the special states.""
and more importantly, can you divide by partial zero?
Ah, the smell of technology innovation being stifled by stupid legal action in the morning.
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Well, it's a bit like fuzzy logic. When a zero is sufficiently large, it's almost as much as a little bit of one.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
> can you divide by partial zero?
Of course you can. That's the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Yes, but only a little bit.
Does anybody else wonder whether the US government has been taken over by somebody (possibly giant alien lizards) who are deliberately trying to ruin the country?
The Republican party believes government is incompetent to provide many basic public services and therefore underfunds it and runs it incompetently in order to prove their point.
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