Posted on 08/22/2016 11:04:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly issued a new regulation last week that is meant to help protect the world from “climate change” by limiting “greenhouse gas emissions” and improving fuel efficiency in medium- and heavy-duty vehicles operated in the United States.
The 1,690-page regulation is approximately 700,000 words long.
A “regulatory impact analysis” published by EPA and NHTSA estimates the regulation will add an average of as much as $13,749 to the cost of a tractor truck and $1,370 to a trailer, making some tractor-trailer combinations $15,119 more expensive in 2027 than they would be under current regulations.
While admitting that the regulation will increase the cost of trucks and the other vehicles it effects, the administration argues that the owners of these vehicles will actually save money by using less fuel and that the regulation “will result in up to $230 billion in net benefits to society.” …
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Dysregulation will put most mom-and-pop small business trucking companies into bankruptcy
...the owners of these vehicles will actually save money...
Imposing fuels mileage standards on heavy duty trucks is about as stupid as it gets.
ALL Truckers: Go on a week vacation...drop your trailers where they are suppose to be, if you own your rig, take it home, if not, get a way home...shut down the roads, no truckers, no food, no parts, no nothing...
Yes, it will hurt us, but if this half baked idea gets through, it’s going to hurt us more...
Shut ‘er down baby!!!
How about some fuel standards for locomotives?
We are just getting started.
By and by we will have fuel standards for humans.
A daily calorie intake limit, and a f*rt gas limit.
Regulations destroy the economy by increasing costs and by the diversion of capital from its most productive use. The increase in costs and the diversion of capital reduce total productive ability, which lowers productivity of labor, which lowers average real wage rates, which lowers the standard of living of the average worker.
In sure the ‘rats would like to selectively eliminate the “domestic terrorist” types. Then human energy consumption in the US would be down ~30%.
The same government publishing these crushing regulations are more than happy to welcome rolling death traps from mexico on our country’s roads.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
What they’re not saying is nothing currently produced complies with the new requirements. It’s pie in the sky.
The alarmists failed basic science. Does that answer your question?
With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following.
If the parents of the owners of trucking companies had made sure that their children were taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, and associated limited power to appropriate taxes, as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, then truckers would be able to argue the followng against the constitutionally undefined EPA’s likewise unconstitutional regulation concerning trucks.
The states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constituiton, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental issues.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Note that even if the states had expressly constitutionally granted the feds such powers, the Founding States had given the responsibility for regulating, taxing and spending uniquely to Congress, not faceless federal bureaucrats such as those running the constitutionally undefined EPA.
Consider that the EPA is just one of the many “useful idiot” federal agencies that corrupt Congress has unconstitutonally established to hide behind in blatant defiance of the Constitution’s Section’s 1-3 of Article I.
in other words, corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting non-elected federal bureaucrats outside the legislative branch steal and exercise legislative branch powers so that these bureaucrats can do Congress’s unpopular and unconstitutional legislative work for it. And by having outsiders do its dirty work for it, lawmakers can keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots into reelecting them.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by the EPA truck regulation.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
That’s what they said before the last round of EPA regs on Class 8 trucks kicked in, and instead we’ve got truckers pouring pee (well DEF but it’s 33% urea, which is to say, pee).
As long as we take it, the EPA is more than willing to give us more.
This is BS. Can heavy trucks meeting these ridiculous standards even be manufactured with current technology? To meet these standards it may well be likely to both make trucks smaller and reduce their load capacity. So more trucks will be needed to move the same loads. How will this reduce total emissions if more trips are required?
I’d vote for Trump solely on his promise to reign in the EPA. His speech Saturday in Fredericksburg nailed this. He’ll appoint a pro-energy, pro-business official to head the EPA. That agency is a viper’s nest of anti-American tree huggers.
Government regulations do not benefit society. They never have and never will. You cannot produce gain from loss.
“A daily calorie intake limit, and a f*rt gas limit.”
And the company that gets the contract for fart monitors and telemetry to the regulating government agency will be a Clinton Foundation donor.
Teamster Vote.
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