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White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org)
The Trump administration has proposed a rollback of Obama-era fuel efficiency and emissions standards, while simultaneously taking aim at California's unique ability to set more stringent rules. From a report: Under the Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency called for the fuel economy standards for new vehicles to ratchet up over time. The increasingly strict standards were designed to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. On Thursday, the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a new proposed rule that would instead freeze the standards at their 2020 levels for six years. "Cars and trucks are just part of the basic fiber of the American economy and the American experience, so we take what we're doing very, very seriously," Bill Wehrum, EPA assistant administrator, told reporters on Thursday. The agencies say that increasing fuel efficiency requirements contributes to an increase in the cost of new cars and trucks, which may discourage consumers from buying new vehicles. Because newer vehicles have advanced safety features, the administration argues, increasing fuel economy requirements therefore harms highway safety, as well as having economic effects.
but it would increase the cost of the car.
Always the same freaking argument.
It costs more to have proper sewage systems than to throw your shit in the street behind your house like they used to do, when people died of cholera by the thousands.
It costs more to clean your industrial rejects than to just dump them in the river like they used to, when people died by the thousands of lead, mercury, etc poisoning.
It costs more to maintain your house than to let it get infested by mice, cockroaches and mold.
It costs more to be clean than to be dirty. Pay more and live healthy, or pay less and die. It's really just that simple.
It's called being civilized, something that trumptards and other conservatives don't seem to want to be.
A sizable portion of the US public are uneducated and easily duped by corrupt/anti-sciencr/religious nutter media. Simple as that. Don't ascribe high motives to US voters.