EDITORIAL FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

HEAD: The Lawnmower Men

Al Gore blew into Washington on Thursday, warning that "our very way of
life" is imperiled if the U.S. doesn't end "the carbon age" within 10 years.
No one seriously believes such a goal is even remotely plausible. But if you
want to know what he and his acolytes think this means in practice, the
Environmental Protection Agency has just published the instruction manual.
Get ready for the lawnmower inspector near you.

In a huge document released last Friday, the EPA lays out the thousands of
carbon controls with which they'd like to shackle the whole economy. Central
planning is too artful a term for the EPA's nanomanagement. Thankfully none
of it has the force of law -- yet. However, the Bush Administration has done
a public service by opening this window on new-wave green thinking like Mr.
Gore's, and previewing what Democrats have in mind for next year.

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