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Look Sailaway, we are trying to catch up on the US SUV population density over here. Eco friendly cars may get a big tax break, but nobody wants them, it's their last chance to buy a gas-guzzler before they get banned by the greens. Hummers are becoming particularly popular.
Kyoto is just a farce, industry gets handed huge free carbon credits by government, far more than they need, so they can sell the extra back into the market, make a profit and do damn all about cleaning up their act. The EC tried putting emission limits on cars some time in the future, but Germany persuaded them to make the limits suitable for a heavy SUV towing yachts uphill. The difference over here is that even the politicians have worked out that GW is a good way of making money and adding fear factor to control population.
It has taken the oil industry a little longer in the US to work out how they can make even more money out of GW and tell your government what to do. But it looks like they have made it. Soon you will be allowed even more mucho-macho-machines and encouragement to use them. Only the gas price will be a tiny bit more (plus a few extra environmentally friendly taxes), power prices will see a hike too. You will have extra green taxes on your airline tickets to offset your carbon footprint and make some company planting trees in their fast growing bank accounts happy.