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Calif. Car Paint Proposal Parked For Now
California Wants To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has backed down from a proposal on new cars' paint coatings.
The state said it's looking for ways to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions by improving cars' efficiency.

David Bienick
One way to do that is by making cars more reflective so that their air-condition systems don't have to work as hard.
Cars that are light in color run cooler than dark-colored cars because of the way they reflect light.
The California Air Resources Board discussed a proposal this week that would have required new cars to get a new kind of paint to make them more reflective.
California said the procedure doesn't change the color of the car except for cars that are black.
Right now, it's too technically difficult to create new paint for the color black, the state said.
The California Air Resources Board decided to shelve the paint proposal until 2015.
There has been a lot of misinformation regarding the paint proposal, the state said, and owners of black cars have been leaving them angry calls and e-mails. Some thought that the state would ban cars that are black.
Meanwhile, the state said it's going ahead with a proposed rule that would make windows more reflective. That procedure wouldn't change the appearance of windows.
Once implemented, the windows proposal would save the state 70 million gallons of gas per year. The savings would amount to the same as taking 200,000 cars off of California's roads.
The state said consumers should be aware that when it comes to car colors, choosing the right color does make a difference. For example, buying a white car instead of a black car saves about 2 to 3 miles per gallon.
According to a report on Cars.com, white is the most popular car color, followed by black and silver.
Reported by: David Bienick
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