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EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com)
Coral Davenport and Hiroko Tabuchi, reporting for The New York Times: The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving them ammunition to potentially roll back industry standards worldwide. The move -- which undercuts one of President Barack Obama's signature efforts to fight climate change -- would also propel the Trump administration toward a courtroom clash with California, which has vowed to stick with the stricter rules even if Washington rolls back federal standards. That fight could end up creating one set of rules for cars sold in California and the 12 states that follow its lead, and weaker rules for the rest of the states, in effect splitting the nation into two markets.
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is expected to frame the initiative as eliminating a regulatory burden on automakers that will result in more affordable trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles for buyers, according to people familiar with the plan. An E.P.A. spokeswoman confirmed that Mr. Pruitt had sent a draft of the 16-page plan to the White House for approval. Further reading: EPA to its employees: Ignore science when talking about climate change (ArsTechnica)
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is expected to frame the initiative as eliminating a regulatory burden on automakers that will result in more affordable trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles for buyers, according to people familiar with the plan. An E.P.A. spokeswoman confirmed that Mr. Pruitt had sent a draft of the 16-page plan to the White House for approval. Further reading: EPA to its employees: Ignore science when talking about climate change (ArsTechnica)
from the /. summary:
The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers...
It is a victory for consumers, who would otherwise be forced to pay much higher prices for automobiles.
The extreme warming predictions have proven wrong. We are heading into a solar grand minimum. The only people who need to worry about global warming are the alarmists who have staked their careers on it.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Moreover, this "debate" is like most others - the so-called champions of science have long since abandoned any attempt to convince people about their theories or prove them - and instead simply want to decide amongst themselves and then coerce everyone else by force of law to go along. That's the left's way - have elite chosen few (in this case, with *no claim to credentials whatsoever* like a morbidly obese failed politician) simply decide what to do, everyone else be damned, freedom or independence be damned, everyone is stupid but me so I will just do what I feel like doing. Unchecked, it *always*, repeat, *always* results in totalitarian government. It must.
The right is poisoning people & Earth for profit, reject inconvenient science and subject experts, fill the country with dangerous firearms...
As a compromise, why not just stop trying to impose your belief systems on people? If people want to have firearms, how does it help anyone to hate on those people? Is hate your goal? Because that's mostly what you’ve achieved.
If people refuse your belief that you can "save the Earth", why should they be bullied into going along with something they think is false? You've tried forcing them to go along with you. You've tried name-calling them and being mean to them. You've tried pointing at people you revere as "experts". You've tried making endless apocalyptic predictions of the future. How did it work out? Is it working out? Maybe you should give up trying to make others live their lives according to your beliefs. How about it?
You know what you didn't try? Listening to them and caring about their concerns. Being fair to them. Treating them like your fellow Americans. If you want to accomplish something more than spreading hatred and division, this is how you start doing that.
Meanwhile the rest of the world will be achieve that 50 even 75 mpg by simply, generating that energy far more efficiently in a power station and using electric vehicles. Choke on those toxic exhaust fumes in you crumbling cities with D grade infrastructure, high unemployment, gun crime out of control, trigger happy law enforcers and with a military industrial complex more expensive than the rest of the world combined (you just know the US is heading there), hope it makes you feel all warm and cosy a night. From the rest of the world's perspective when this stuff leaks out, it just makes the entire US government look like it is just chock full shite and managed by greed driven stupidity.
Those fuckers know the laws will be undone but hey, who gives a fuck, for two more years they increase profits and fuck everyone else. It really is just that shallow, this quarters profits and nothing more, privatise the profits and socialise the losses. They know those laws will be rewritten, they know they are dangerous and harmful, they know, they don't care, more money now. They know the punishment for lying is non existent, they know the punishment for purposeful mismanagement of government services is non existent, they know they are harming their own companies in the long run but bigger bonuses now. The diplomatic gap between the US and the rest of the world is growing at quite the pace, keep lying to yourselves like that and why would the rest of the world believe anything you tell them.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen