Court tosses federal fuel economy standards for light trucks

AP via SFGate ^ | 11/115/7 | PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

Of course it’s the 9th circus.

[goldstategop]

Just what we expected from the Nine Circus. Ban SUV's NoW!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Redbob]

Need to cram the lot of them into a Pinto...

[lepton]

The court ordered the administration to examine why it continues to consider light trucks differently than cars.

Because light trucks are more oriented towards carg-hauling than sedans, dolts.

[EagleUSA]

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals also ruled that the standards, which were to go into effect next year, didn’t properly assess the risk to the environment and failed to include heavier trucks.
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Yes, the socialist activist clowns of the 9th speak again. The People’s Republic of San Freakcisco shines again to make Californians proud of the world’s largest outdoor insane asylum...

[43north]

[The court ordered the administration to examine why it continues to consider light trucks differently than cars.]

Obviously judges are not required to be very smart or have even a tiny bit of common sense. They can’t even tell the difference between cars and trucks.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Well, if it’s simply a matter of passing a law, the court should have overturned the standards. They should have further substituted their judgment and required cars and all trucks to attain 150 mpg by 2009. That would cure our oil habit.

[thackney]

When are the going to require the same MPG for 18 wheelers and cement trucks?

[pierrem15]

More likely because, under the law, they meet the legal definition of "light truck" rather than "passenger vehicle."

The 9th Circus is claiming the right to 'correct' the legislature as it sees fit.

[norwaypinesavage]

If this ruling holds, 5000 more people will die, per year, in traffic accidents. Where are the “no blood for oil” protesters when we really need them?

[FoxInSocks]

One solution is simply to throw out all fuel economy standards.

And what on Earth is the “Center for Biological Diversity”?

[keepitreal]

[The court ordered the administration to examine why it continues to consider light trucks differently than cars.]

Your honors, we’ve examined it as per your ruling and we have determined that cars are different than trucks. Thank you for making us focus on that important issue and allowing us to examine it.

[Southack]

"...yet for SUVs and their ilk."

Gee, no bias from this AP writer.

NOT!

[Southack]

"It finds that the administration must consider the environmental impacts and it rejects the long-standing and ridiculous exemption that SUVs, pickups and minivans enjoyed."

Not the judges' jobs. Different branches of government...

[lepton]

More likely because, under the law, they meet the legal definition of "light truck" rather than "passenger vehicle."

Well, frankly I think we're both right...though in different contexts. Legally, you are certainly more right than I.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I have wondered for years why cars are different that trucks. The last time I tried to load 10 tons of coal onto my car I got a hint that there might be a difference. The snowplow on my car also doesn’t seem to have the same effect as the one on the Oshkosh truck that is used to plow our roads.

There is an old saying somewhere - the law is an ass.

[Kellis91789]

Yeah. Good luck trying to make an open-bed pickup truck suitable for carrying cargo and also aerodynamic enough to get the same mileage as a sedan. A little thing called physics will get in the way.

[Jacquerie]

The court ordered the administration to examine why it continues to consider light trucks differently than cars

The blackrobe philosopher-kings have spoken! All bow to their will! You may genuflect now.

[BlueNgold]

Ever try hauling a trailer, or some lumber, or anything for that matter ... with a Prius?