It might not come as a surprise to learn that, according to Green (living) Review, the EU is back-pedalling and reports on a French proposal to delay limits on CO2 emissions from cars until 2015.

But it's not all bad news - the Euractiv website says that ACEA aren't likely to get the € 40 billion loan that some commentators consider to be just a bargaining tool in what is turning into the great CO2 emissions swindle.

Instead of lending the car makers money to do what they'd promised to do years ago and never delivered on, President Sarkzoy wants to hand them €400 million to help pay for research into clean vehicles over the next 4 years.

I'm not sure where President Sarkozy was when the Paris Auto Show was going on. Wasn't this year's show green from top to toe, with car makers keen to show off the latest innovations in low or no CO2 emission cars?

Or perhaps he didn't know that the car makers can make the targets with existing technology.

I have a sneaking feeling that instead of getting useful info on this blog, he's been listening to the German-backed car lobby.

If you want to help remind him and his pal Angela Merkel that it's within the reach of the car makers and it's what the people want a, sign the Greenpeace petition. If you've already signed, there must be someone you know who hasn't. www.greenpeace.org/eurocarsmerkel