Posted on 09/16/2009 1:49:52 PM PDT by La Lydia
The Obama administration on Tuesday formally proposed new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, a move that signals the first federal limits on greenhouse-gas pollution. In May, President Obama announced in a Rose Garden ceremony that cars would be held to a higher environmental standard. On Tuesday, officials filled in the details, linking fuel economy to emissions from vehicles.
The net effect would be to require manufacturers to ratchet up fuel economy 5 percent per year. In 2016, new cars and trucks would have to achieve an average rating of 35.5 miles per gallon. Cars currently must average 27.5 miles per gallon; light trucks must average 23.1 miles per gallon....Obama cited the proposed rules as a sign that his administration can find common ground between environmental groups and industry...
Tuesday's announcement marks progress on one piece of the Obama administration's agenda for fighting climate change. While the administration is simultaneously pressing for a bill to cap U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions and for a global climate pact, it is encountering resistance to those efforts both at home and abroad. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate may not act on climate legislation until next year.
The proposal announced Tuesday was spurred by a Supreme Court ruling in 2007 that the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to regulate greenhouse gases from tailpipes...
Among the changes proposed is that average fuel-economy ratings of 35.5 miles per gallon would have to be achieved four years sooner than current law calls for. Manufacturers alternately could meet a requirement that their vehicles on average emit no more than 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile. With current technology, the measures are essentially equivalent...
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AND YET THEY ALLOW COKE AND PEPSI TO CONTINUE TO ADD CARBON DIOXIDE TO THEIR EVERAGES!!!
If the President would shut up for a second or two, we’d have a lot less CO2 in the atmosphere.
...every day it’s another bill from these clowns....I don’t know anybody that’s clamoring for these so-called “reforms”
Gasp!
Squeeze play aimed at uncommitted congressmen and senators who are sitting on their hands over the cap’n trade bill; EPA has promised to defer to legislative designed to move forward a plan to take us back to the dark ages.
Otherwise, it’s back to shoveling horse manure for every single one of us.
Oh, no! They are going to take away all our clouds, and forbid fog!
Never again shall we have dew-tipped mornings....
As everybody knows, water vapor is by FAR the most important greenhouse gas, having some 30 to 100 times the effect of carbon dioxide, so any significant control of greenhouse gas MUST include water vapor.
Or, maybe not EVERYBODY knows that.
Too bad that Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, is not among the knowledgeable.
From across the waters we hear these winds a’blowin’:
[“To enable mass market EV adoption, the Better Place solution includes interfaces designed to support all kinds of electric vehicles announced and under development, thereby providing a comprehensive infrastructure that the automotive and utility industry can count on for the transition to EVs. It’s the combination of infrastructure – to physically charge the car – and the “information train” of data – which is used to optimize the charging and manage the grid – that forms the heart of the EV services platform.
“Inside the car, Better Place manages the vehicle’s energy plan through an on-board computing platform, codenamed “AutOS.” The AutOS platform performs complex energy calculations to create a personalized energy plan for each driver.
“Outside of the car, Better Place has architected a master data center, which acts as the “brain” of the network. The Better Place data center enables “smart charging” of all electric cars on the network by optimizing and prioritizing when, where and how much each car is charged. Doing so minimizes the impact on local utilities while carefully orchestrating the state of charge for all batteries on the network so that every car is “topped up.”
“As a centrally controlled function, the data center integrates any data across the entire network including: the availability of charge spots and battery switch stations; the state of charge of each battery; the ability to harness peak levels of renewable energy generation; topography maps and traffic patterns; and driving habits and patterns.
“By integrating the data, Better Place has a 360-degree view across the entire network of charge spots, battery switch stations, electric cars, batteries and local utilities, enabling an entire ecosystem of industry players to deliver a more convenient and affordable electric car…”
Another way to read this is to imagine a quick trip to the grocery store only to be told by some dumb robocharger that disconnecting the plug is disabled while your neighbor is blending margaritas and vacuuming the house.
What happens is that we get more barely-truck vehicles. Did you know that both the Chevy HHR and the Chrysler PT Cruiser are trucks for the purpose of fuel economy fleet classification.
The UN has already agreed to using the Ozone Treaty to force the banning of all fluorocarbons; ready for propane refrigerators, freezers and home A/C units?
‘Schwinns for Clunkers’ may not be far off.
Maybe that won't be so hard if the mileage determining test excludes battery charge and counts the Chevy Volt at 250 miles per gallon (and I've heard, the Nissan Leaf at over 300). One Volt bought by the Post Office, and GM can sell a couple of dozen regular cars. The Volt will bring up the average.
Notice in paragraph 7 of the article about the SCOTUS 2007 decision and EPA enforcing the SCOTUS decision.
Now this is about the mobile sources and some of big conflicts will be about the stationary sources.
Hydrocarbon refrigerants work nicely. They pose a fire hazard in the event of a breach or leak, however.
All Hail Lord Hussein.
“Talking ‘bout the President won’t stop air pollution,
Put your hand o’er your mouth when you cough, that’ll help the solution.”
- Staple Singers
He can go th Hell and stay there.
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