BANNING FAST CARS to fight global warming. Even the Prius wouldn’t pass this rather strict test:

Chris Davies, a British member of the European Parliament, is proposing one of the most-extreme measures — a prohibition on any car that goes faster than 162 kilometers (101 miles) an hour, a speed that everything from the humble Honda Civic on up can exceed. He ridiculed fast cars as “boys’ toys.”

Is it climate-protection, or social engineering? As I’ve said before, the hairshirt approach to environmentalism is a mistake, but some people can’t resist it — because for them, the hairshirt isn’t a bug, but a feature.