The American Spectator

p>Yours truly, br> — Rush E. McCarty /p> p> U.K. PHARISEES AND SUVS br> Re: Ben Stein’s Roadway Pharisees : /p> p>Ben Stein — totally right. Someone give that man a cash bonus! I’ve been waiting for someone to say what he says, specifically the paragraph pasted below.* It’s the same thing with Kyoto: America, the most self-consciously clean and technologically advanced, gets kicked in the teeth while backwards and careless polluters get a free pass. My father spent a month in China on business two years ago, and had respiratory troubles and red eyes the whole time. In England where I live the government is anti-car on account of pollution, accidents and god knows what, but if the car tax and other taxes were not so enormous, English drivers might have more money with which to buy newer, safer, cleaner cars. In fact, the yearly tax on company cars actually rewards companies whose cars are four years old or older. br> — Amanda Bernsen /p>

*And by the way, why are these ads about large cars and air quality appearing in magazines and newspapers in the United States? This is where we have strict air pollution standards for cars and trucks. This is where we have strict emission laws for factories and utilities. What is this group doing about the polluters in India and Pakistan and China who have produced the noxious “brown cloud” that occupies much of Asia and whose effluence reaches and destroys American forests and lungs as pollution and acid rain? Shouldn’t they really be going after people who burn totally unscrubbed coal, i.e., Chinese and Indians, instead of the housewife with her catalytic converter and state of the art anti-pollution equipment on her Pontiac Aztec?