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From Automobiles de Luxe

By Gunnar Heinrich

Advancing the green agenda has merits where it pertains to curbing environmental pollutants that the world's industries emit. Few can argue against the benefits of rational clean-air controls that would cut the haze that chokes cities like Hong Kong and Los Angeles, daily.

There is, however, a disingenuous undercurrent of class warfare behind forcing limited production car companies like Ferrari to curb their emissions.

Simply put, something stinks about the EU CO2 laws. Porsche has already declared Brussels' moves an attack on the German car industry - and it would seem so were it not for the fact that British and Italian marques are affected, too.

Autoblog reported recently that Ferrari aims to decrease its "carbon footprint" by 40% before 2012.

This news comes inline with the marque's desire to replace their flagship V12 powerplant. One has to wonder what compromises will be made to ensure compliance to a law that should only apply to the millions of Fords, Hyundais, Renaults, and Toyotas that are manufactured each year.

The Hazy science of global warming cannot say with absolute certainty what effect those 7,500 garage principesse will have on the world's weather patterns.

And though no one can say for sure, the environmental bureaucrats are still fixated on those highly symbolic 7,500. And symbols, lest we forget, are what advance agendas.