The Newtown Bee: "With air quality, we're also uneven. At the urging of the relentless Connecticut Fund for the Environment, our legislature has ordered that new cars sold here will soon have to meet those pesky California standards. But we keep building highways and putting off new bus routes so that citizens have little choice but to pour ever more exhaust fumes into the atmosphere.
Yes, progress would surely be much easier if the federal government took some modest interest in ecology. One fantasizes beefed-up mileage requirements for new cars, tough limits on landscape desecration by coal mines, increased roof insulation for new buildings, tight curbs on clear-cutting forests, highway aid shifting over to mass transit, prohibition of nuclear power, limits on public air conditioning, and other such Bolshevik-style controls."
