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Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards (arstechnica.com)
A coalition of utilities and electric vehicle makers, including Tesla, are petitioning the EPA to reconsider its recent plan to roll back auto emissions standards. In April, the EPA said that it would relax greenhouse gas emissions standards that had been put in place for model year 2022-2025 vehicles. Ars Technica reports: The National Coalition for Advanced Transportation (NCAT) represents 12 utilities as well as Tesla, electric truck maker Workhorse, and EV charging network EVgo. NCAT earlier this month asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, DC to review the EPA's latest efforts to relax the Obama-era fuel economy standards.
The coalition challenge to the EPA follows a similar challenge made by 17 states, including California. The utilities' efforts show that they're interested in protecting one of the major projected avenues for growth in electricity demand. Electricity consumption has stagnated in the U.S. as efficiency measures take effect and, in some states, solar panels make it easier for residents to buy less electricity from the local utility.
The coalition challenge to the EPA follows a similar challenge made by 17 states, including California. The utilities' efforts show that they're interested in protecting one of the major projected avenues for growth in electricity demand. Electricity consumption has stagnated in the U.S. as efficiency measures take effect and, in some states, solar panels make it easier for residents to buy less electricity from the local utility.
Fuck that reason. Fuck it right in the fucking ass. What a bunch of bullshit. "Oh, we can't be burdened to help preserve the health of our planet."
Fucking assholes.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
So, the guys, who:
seek to outlaw other kinds of energy-storage and usage.
Who, me self-serving?!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Why shape and tilt the market with more federal rules and regulations
Because the vast majority of people are selfish and stupid. They would buy a car that spews out poison if they think they can save a few bucks. Polutes the environment? Kills children? Who cares, I saved money!
Although Trump is a jerk, this EPA decision has nothing to do with the "travel ban".
Sure they do, they're both examples of Trump's personal caprice and malice.
Such rollbacks of overly ambitious goals set by politicians for political gain (they usually are not in office by the time the market is destroyed by goals and, if they are, most people have forgotten their position on the topic or they can fool the public by pointing fingers at private enterprise claiming they didn't bother to meet the goals (which is rather absurd as whoever develops the technology to do so can patent it and suck money from all the ICE powered vehicle manufacturers).
Sorry man, but nobody ever invented the miraculous 200 mpg carberator and sold it off to then auto industry. That's just silly nonsense.
The travel ban is clearly within Trump's authority (you will find that conclusion to be unanimous in the upcoming SCOTUS decision although I expect the overall ruling more likely to be 7-2 in Trump's favor as it's likely a couple of the "legislate from the bench" justices from the left side of spectrum will find a reason to oppose the majority opinion on personal rather than legal grounds).
Nope. The Supreme Court will be forced to admit that Trump made no attempt to follow any kind of standard besides his own expressed animus in his travel ban, and with those statements, his clear intent was to impose a religious test in violation of the prohibition in the Constitution. I expect a 6-3 ruling is unlikely, but 5-4 may come without Alito or Roberts joining the opinions of Thomas or Gorsuch.
The countries affected by the ban were much the same countries that Obama identified when banning anyone who was a national of 38 countries and had even set foot in those "banned" countries for years from using the Visa Waiver Program for much the same reason that Trump included them -- they have governments that are either unable or unwilling to cooperate with our vetting process.
Nope. Trump's own administration admitted they had presented no documentation to that effect, that they wrote following the President's own personal instructions.
Trump even tweeted that himself.
The notion that this was a "Muslim Ban" then leads us to conclude that Obama also was trying to discriminate against Muslims.
Nope. Obama does not have a personal history of expressing antagonism towards Muslims. Trump, on the other hand, does, and directly promised to ban Muslims.
If the "travel bans" were a "Muslim ban" they were certainly a very ineffective way to do so -- a small fraction of the Muslims worldwide are affected and there are many individual countries with much larger populations of Muslims that were unaffected.
Yes, Trump is also incompetent, as noted by his imposition of his ban. A sudden, unprepared, and universal ban with zero planning or forethought.
And, while on the topic of Trump vs. Obama, there's really no question that DACA, as Obama implemented it, was beyond his authority -- Congress never authorized creation of a new class of immigrants and issuance of documents to them. The lawsuits against Trump on DACA rollbacks will fail miserably. It's impossible to argue that Trump doesn't have the power to unilaterally dismantle the program if Obama had the power to unilaterally create it. If Obama didn't have the right to unilaterally create it, it's not a legal program anyway so must go.
Except Obama did not create it. Congress did. It authorized the President to act as Obama acted. Congress even consented. If they had objected, they didn't even have to vote to impeach. They could have just passed a law.
They did not. Instead, they allowed Obama to fulfill the roll he was delegated under the law. Accordingly, using his judgment he set up protections and deferral
Your tax dollars have subsidised a shit-ton of rich people's sports cars, that's for sure. Those people are senior executives and shareholders in Exxon et al, who get wars fought on their behalf to protect supply lines, among a whole bunch of subsidies.