Summary
So vehicles are a major contributor to air pollution -- right? This may have been true at one time and is still a common misconception, but modern vehicles produce very low emissions. According to information supplied by David Paterson, vice-president of Corporate and Environmental Affairs at General Motors, the fact is that even if all new cars were made emissions-free, 99 per cent of Canada's smog and greenhouse gas emissions would remain. Painting a wall with a gallon of water-based paint generates more smog emissions than driving a new GM SUV from Toronto to Vancouver and back. Burning a cord of wood creates more smog than a 2007 Trailblazer would driving around the circumference of the earth 37 times or 10 Chev SUVs would in their entire lifetime.
Part of the emissions the Act is proposed to limit are referred to as greenhouse gases (GHG), primarily carbon dioxide. According to Canada's 2004 GHG Inventory (released May 2006), light duty cars and trucks produce only 12.5 per cent of all GHG and new vehicles contribute only one per cent of the total. In comparison, electrical generation produces 17.1 per cent of the GHG emissions and the oil, gas and coal industry contributes 20.3 per cent. One could argue that the oil and gas industry is there because of automobiles, but there are many areas where large amounts of petroleum products are used in manufacturing and heating.See the full content of this document
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Feds Going in Wrong Direction
Auto Tech / Jim Kerr
"TRANSPORTATION is one of the largest sources of air pollution in Canada." "Given that there are approximately 18 million passenger vehicles on Canadian roads, they are a major contributor to ai...See the full content of this document
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