Government toxicity.(Between The Lines)

ITEM: New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution regulations are going into effect next spring, reported the Kentucky Post for July 18th. Regulators won't know what action to take in some cases until December, said the Post, "when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will release a new set of pollution control guidelines."

"The federal government," continued the paper, "could withhold road construction funds to force Kentucky and Ohio to tighten vehicle emissions laws, if the tougher standards are not met within a certain time frame.... '[T]his is probably the most stringent that the EPA has been with regard to air quality issues,' said Allen Freeman, communications director for the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments...."

BETWEEN THE LINES: The EPA, by design, will never be satisfied with any pollution solutions. For example, the feds already use the threat of withheld funding to force all Ohio vehicles to take emissions tests, even though 91 percent of all cars in the state pass. New cars are even cleaner and could easily be exempted. As Bob ...