It seems the Illinois legislature is considering a bill to compel companies employing 100 employees or more to arrange car pools, in the interests of complying with the Clean Air Act. Compliance with the Clean Air Act can be effected by a truly serious, successful search for cleaner engine fuel!
Trucks cannot car pool; they use a great deal more fuel per mile than do automobiles. Diesel trucks and buses spew black particulates into the air;
delivery trucks leave their motors running during deliveries.
Allowing businesses (truckers, buses, cabs) to continue polluting while regimenting ordinary citizens who do not have a powerful lobby is not only immoral; it will have no effect on pollution, since most car owners drive short distances, park and turn their motors off.
The legislature might consider a law saying when you park, you must turn your motor off. Switzerland does this; motors are turned off at long red lights and at train crossings when traffic waits while a train is running. This is most effective, obeyed by the citizenry and does not foretell, as the current bill does, increasingly dictatorial powers by government. The purpose of the Clean Air Act is to produce clean air, not a robotic citizenry.
