Great idea, too bad it’ll never happen. If Texas has not ever been compliant with the Federal Standards, which I don’t think we have- then there’s a simple reason for it- Gov. Perry doesn’t want it to. He’ll argue that compliance will costs thousands of jobs, increase taxes, increase the cost of services and good, reduce the tax base and the world as we know it may very well end. If we can add restrictions to vehicles to make them more compliant, then we can do so with Industry as well. It’s just not that hard. No jobs will lost-if anything, jobs will be created. But Mr. Perry is too well tied to Industry to not fully support them-and expect that the millions in political contributions will continue to flow.

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