Alan-

Maybe you misunderstood. Perhaps the emissions reduction is EQUIVILENT to
removing 54 million cars. No one said anything about removing cars,
although I wouldn't get angry if they did. On the surface, I guess I'd like
to be incensed about fuel costs rising, or new cars becoming more
expensive. I'm not. I'm actually delighted.

I can't even drum up a flacid argument against the government or industry
taking bold steps to clean up our putrid air. As I observe more and more
friends and family fighting asthma, allergies, and respiratory ailments, I
realize that if it would assure cleaner air for everyone, and everyone else
would accede and conform, I would gladly send my beloved Westfalia to the
crusher without blinking an eye. While I love camping with our van, it is
more important to me to see healthy children running and playing, a sight
that our filthy air has made increasingly rare in the summer.

I can't understand why more people don't wince when the weatherman says
"Another Code Orange Ozone day today..." for the 23rd time in one month.

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree