Banning Sports Cars

The global warming crowd is going after the sports car. Those cars may shortly be outlawed in Europe because it's felt that Ferraris and Porsches produce too much carbon dioxide.

Chris Davies, a British member of the European Parliament, is proposing one of the most-extreme measures -- a prohibition on any car that goes faster than 162 kilometers (101 miles) an hour, a speed that everything from the humble Honda Civic on up can exceed. He ridiculed fast cars as "boys' toys."

Well, if they are going to use the measure of how fast a car can go, then they need to ban the Prius too.

I have a hunch that a ban on sports cars won't be enacted soon in Europe, largely because the Italians love their Lamborghinis, the British their Bentleys and the Germans their Porsches. But this won't be the last time that anti-consumption crusaders come disguised as guardians of the Earth.

I think there is going to be a limit to what Americans will put up with too. Can you imagine anyone around here being forced to give up their big trucks or Hummers?