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Chrysler says it will work closely with Chery to make sure the cars it sells meet all safety and emissions laws.
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Certain standards regarding physical safety or emissions are likely to be more stringent in the West and those imported designs from the U.S. or Europe will be priced higher.
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But quality issues have probably been the biggest road block for the Chinese car invasion to our shores along with tweaking the cars to meet our stricter government safety and emissions regulations.
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Nor will they likely recoup the cost of expensive technologies required to comply with new emissions and safety regulations.
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In past years, the European Union has urged Germany to impose speed limits where there are none, arguing that this would improve safety and reduce carbon emissions.
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Following a model used by Japan and Korea, China is also encouraging foreign automakers to bring modern emissions and safety technology and share it with their Chinese partners.
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Also, if the oil is to be used in the US, transporting it to refineries via the Keystone XL pipeline is far preferable from an emissions and safety standpoint than the only viable alternative, which is by rail.
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In response, the Department for Transport said the lessons were entirely voluntary and more about saving people money and reducing carbon emissions, than safety.
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Birol and the IEA said that a phase-out would avoid 750m tonnes of CO2 a year by 2015, potentially rising to 2.6 gigatonnes by 2035, a level sufficient to provide half the emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to 2C, considered the limit of safety by many scientists.
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You want a guarantee of safety - not something along the lines of "if we peak at date X and reduce emissions at rate Y that gives you Z% chance of not being flooded out of existence".
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