On the bright side, maybe this will stem the tide of the cops moving to black vehicles. Every time I see one, my blood boils. They should be putting pubic safety first by going to bright colors that make them stand out (lime green or fluorescent orange). This black trend is just a low budget cloaking device designed to increase revenue from speed traps. Bastards! Enough!

Mythbusters can test all they want, but it doesn't take living in the South long to know better than go black on black here. I never had soft drinks explode in my trunk or had a CD case turn into a sphere as the plastic softened and the air inside expanded, until I owned a black/black car (If the CD wasn't still inside it, I wouldn't have known what it was).


These people are serious though, some were up in Greenland spreading reflective material on a glacier to try and slow its' melting. During it there was a commercial for a show about a laca filled fissure on Greenland. Is it possible the volcanic activity on Greenland could be factor in melting the ice there? Just a thought.

Like I said before, there is NO PLACE the dp/left won't insert themselves into your life.

Why the hell didn't George Bush stop those people?

The reflective paint will only work for about half the year in half the state. The other half of the state would actually have to use their heaters more in the winter because the sun isn't helping to warm their cars. So now we need study to determine which is more damaging to the environment the heaters or the A/C units in cars.

Wait a minute, wouldn't you think all that heat being refected back into the atmosphere would contribute to "global warming"?

I have black Crossfire roadster and I don't need A/C in the summer ... watch the car dealers come out with some "coating" that costs a grand more like that did with that "undercoating" crap scam back in the 90's

What about the folks that live near Than Franthithco? What about folks who drive in the winter? Do you think they might WANT that extra smidgen of warmth?

I agree with Bill, It sounds Racist. What's next, making Black people illegal. This is bad, we are equating dark colors as being bad colors.

If I lived in California I'd paint everything I had black.

(Forgive me. When I stop trying to find humor in what's going on, I'll go crazy.)

OBAMA: During the campaign, McCain got mileage from his $300 million car battery contest and tire gauge stunt. Outside-the-box ideas of our own? David?

AXELROD: Propose a $500 million prize to the inventor of a practical cow diaper/processor that extracts and stores methane as the animal produces waste. In one swell poop, we harness a dangerous greenhouse biogas for use as cheap automotive fuel.

OBAMA: Excellent! American entremanures, uh, will be all over that like flies on ... . Yes, Rahm?

EMANUEL: Termites emit methane too, big time, sir. After we've leveled the northern tribal areas of Pakistan, have Predators and Cruise missiles take out termite mounds worldwide.

OBAMA: Can't. The insects rights groups would go bugnuts. Hillary, offer termite communities here and abroad tax and trade incentives to raze their towers and go subterranean. Dave?

PLOUFFE: Think bigger, sir. As passengers on Spaceship Earth, every body must pitch in to help the planet renew itself. Mandate home waste recyclers by 2012.

OBAMA: Yes! My next Executive Order: ''Harvesting Ordure: Operation Assimilative Households''—HOOAH.

GENERAL MCPEAK: HOOAH!! sir.

MICHELLE: Well, fine, long as the White House is exempt. You hear me, Barack?

I was going to go with a Silver Lexus, but I think I'll buy a black Benz out of spite.

what about black roof tops, and black top roads? that's a helluva lot more surface area! the 10-12 square feet of a car is just not significant.