At the risk of annoying many, many voters, its time the politicians stepped up to the plate. Economic incentives work. Gasoline taxes can be an important part of the effort to improve air quality. The best way to protect the environment are to find ways to make it part of the efficient and relentless energy of the free market. Complex regulations do not work.
Complex regulations are a cure which is worse than the disease.
Regulations are generally too rigid to adapt to changing circumstances, too full of loopholes and interpretation, and too far removed from the marketplace. The re-regulation of the cable TV industry is a recent example of misguided effort that went awry, and some aspects of the Endangered Species Act, the wetlands protection efforts and onerous VOC regulations are exhibiting similar trends. For example, the wide-spread deployment of unleaded gas could only have occurred by government action. Micro Care applauds the tough decision taken by the Canadian government to protect the fisheries in the Atlantic, and hopes they will continue to use their seapower to protect those fishing grounds from poachers. These are examples of governance at its best.