In many respects, you're absolutely correct. The program, as it now stands, does penalize people who have legitimate needs for particular vehicles; in many respects, people who are in rural parts of this country have specific utility needs, so again there's a fairness issue there.
Although this program has been touted as a revenue-neutral program, it's not. In fact, it's like any other feebate program: it's a tax. That's really where other things come out. There's a $55 million net gain, if you will, in revenue by virtue of this program.
All literature suggests, whether it's the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, the Ontario government, the British Columbia government—Other independent studies in the United States clearly show that these programs do not work, but if we are able to remove the program and provide a look at a whole broad range of advanced technology vehicles and help consumers afford them—
We have and continue to have an affordability challenge in this country simply because of lower personal disposable income and higher operating costs and so forth, so the market is actually already optimized to a smaller, more fuel-efficient fleet, and the data shows this as well. People really don't buy much beyond their needs, except in the high-end luxury vehicle segment, and that's where there's a great deal of price inelasticity, where it doesn't matter; because of their affluence, they'll continue to buy the vehicle that they do purchase.
Clearly, with all these things going on and with gasoline prices being the way they are, we are moving to more fuel-efficient vehicles, but if we take on the wrong policy—policies like this one, which can actually retard environmental improvement and retard fleet turnover—not only do we lose out on the smog-related benefits, but we lose out on the greenhouse-gas-related benefits.
The third one we lose out on is vehicle safety benefits. For every old vehicle that's taken off the road—There are over a million 1987 and older vehicles on our roads, each emitting 37 times more than a new vehicle in terms of smog-causing emissions. These new vehicles are equipped with some of the most advanced safety systems that exist, and there's data to show that if we were able to turn over the fleet overnight—we can't do that, of course, but if we could—we would see as much as a 50% reduction in fatalities on our roads. So the whole key here is policies that support fleet turnover.