7-10-08 by dugan
The state of California will require all 2009 and later cars to be labeled with their global warming scores, as well as the current air pollution/smog scores. The 1-10 best-to-worst scores will be posted on a window, I expect, by the price info. Maybe people with high scores will leave the stickers on for a couple of months, like car buyers sometimes used to do with the price sticker to drive home the point that they had a new car. Even better would be to badge the car permanently with its pollution scores.
It’d be like the A, B, and C cleanliness scores that the Los Angeles County health department requires restaurants to display. Eatery managers kill themselves with overnight repairs to rid themselves of a C. Of course, you can’t repair your way out of a bad, Hummer-grade pollution score. And car makers won’t ever put the dreaded 10 next to the model badge. But the sticker’s a good step and likely to go national, even if it’s short of a scarlet "A" on the forehead.