What are automakers doing to cut car pollution?
A. Automakers are doing very little to solve the problem and are instead focusing on stopping others from solving the problem. Despite growing concern over global warming, major automakers still pursue product strategies that make the problem worse. Through 2003, carbon dioxide emissions — a primary cause of global warming — from U.S. cars and light trucks have increased 25 percent above the 1990 levels, according to a new report by Environmental Defense. Even though some automakers have started to introduce hybrid cars, they have fought clean car standards in every state where clean car legislation has been proposed. For years, the auto industry has resisted regulations from catalytic converters to seatbelts. Automakers have long argued that regulations are too expensive and cumbersome, consistently grossly exaggerating the cost of compliance. American automakers are continuing their tradition of using their lawyers and lobbyists to stymie any significant progress on health, safety,
