Originally Posted by
maddyfish
Sure some good has been done. Evinrude has an outboard 2 stroke boat motor that is cleaner, gets better mileage, and needsw less maintainance than a comparable 4 stroke. But that is not the type of engine that will power the third world's cars. It will be the old smokey nasty oil burner.
How do you know that? Do you think that people in India and China
like inhaling vehicle exhaust? A recent poll showed that a larger percentage of people in China regarded Global Warming as a serious threat than people in the US. China has more stringent gas-mileage requirements than we do. They even banned the use of plastic bags recently. Don't assume that people in other countries are a bunch of ignorant peasants who don't care about the larger environment.
(BTW, does Evinrude make that clean two-stroke in a 6 hp version?)