<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 12"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01CA1B27.59A8F540"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="cid:editdata.mso">  <link rel=themeData href="~~themedata~~"> <link rel=colorSchemeMapping href="~~colorschememapping~~">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> <a name="_MailAutoSig"><span style='font-size:10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#242424;mso-no-proof: yes'>                       </a><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:#7F7F7F;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:128;mso-no-proof:yes'>  World Streets: Heavy traffic on the way to sustainable cities and sustainable lives . . .<span style='font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#242424;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p> <span style='font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:#242424;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> Mr. Meter on America's Cash for Clunkers<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> If matters of climate, sustainable transportation and scarce resources are close to your heart, and you happen to be European, you may have some reserves about your country's ecologically billed, <![if !vml]><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/SoJarJyli7I/AAAAAAAABZM/2wFMywAX8YM/s1600-h/pic-schipper.jpg"><img border=0 width=156 height=107 src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/SoJarJyli7I/AAAAAAAABZM/2wFMywAX8YM/s200/pic-schipper.jpg" align=right hspace=12 v:shapes="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368953403188022194"></a><![endif]>and energetically buttressed "Cash for Clunkers" (in more polite Euro language of course) program. Let a couple of Americans help you to feel less embarrassed. Before you dig in, a summary: Schipper's real concerns in this article published earlier this week in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/08/08/GR2009080802658.html">Washingtom Pos</a>t are these: First, the CO2 saved come principally because the cars bought under C4C are slightly more fuel economic than others bought. But the CO2 saved over the lifetime of the new car is extremely expensive, hundreds of dollars per tonne. If Americans are whining over cap-and-trade or a carbon tax in the tens of dollars per tonne, why embrace something so much more expensive for the taxpayer. And at the end of the day C4C doesn't fix transport, it only fixes a tiny bit of CO2. Schipper is worried that Americans will now set back and breath a sigh of relief, when the real work lies ahead. And as to our European friends, the situation is no less (I choose my word) stupid. See the Associated Press piece below summarizing the state of play of C4C in eleven European cities. Stupidity is clearly viral. <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> --> The full text of this article appears in <a href="http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/">World Streets</a> today at <a href="http://WorldStreets.org/">http://WorldStreets.org/</a>  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>