Posted on 08/02/2019 12:30:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A group of 12 states led by California and New York on Friday challenged the Trump administration’s decision to suspend a 2016 Obama administration regulation that more than doubled penalties for automakers that fail to meet fuel efficiency requirements.
Automakers protested the higher penalties, which they said could cost the industry up to $1 billion annually, and the Trump administration finalized the regulatory freeze on July 12. The 12 states, joined by the District of Columbia, filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reverse the rule released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Congress in 2015 ordered federal agencies to adjust a wide range of civil penalties to account for inflation and, in response, the NHTSA, under Democratic President Barack Obama, issued rules to eventually raise fines to $14 from $5.50 for every 0.1 mile per gallon of fuel that new cars and trucks consume in excess of the required standards.
The move comes as the NHTSA and the Environmental Protection Agency are working to finalize a rewrite of the Obama administration’s fuel efficiency requirements through 2026.
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Deranged - wasting taxpayer money on frivolous, losing battles.
Get the guvment out of the market.
They actually believe that regulations enacted under Obozo can’t be rescinded by Trump.
Trannies in the military, border wall, daca, must be others.
It was never a law.
Laws only apply to Republicans so we really don’t care.
“Deranged - wasting taxpayer money on frivolous, losing battles.”
It makes things worse in their states and in the United States. From their standpoint, not deranged, but a battle won.
Sounds like a thirteen year old being told they can’t attend a party.
Not gonna win this one...
CA and NY, the top kleptostates were all set to make bank on fines.
Boss 302.
Take it past the libtard green EV every morning.
I always leave a bit of rubber.
God Bless the pony.
Trump administration’s decision to suspend a 2016 Obama administration regulation...
Another win for the American people and a loss for the dimrat party.
Go Trump!
This was one of Obongo’s land mines he left behind. He shoved this through on the way out the door. The car makers would have to suspend the laws of physics to meet these requirements. It’s just sickening what the government meddling has done to cars. Half of the cost is to get the cars to meet the government requirements. When you get your next car and find the f’n motor shuts off at every intersection thank the Rats.
What a president can giveth, a president can take away, right or wrong?
I didn’t see any comment on the legal rationale for their petition. The states want a court to tell the Executive how much the fines on automakers should be? I can’t fathom how this challenge will go anywhere.
Yep. Wasting taxpayer money is the first thing that came to mind.
“What a president can giveth, a president can take away, right or wrong?”
Liberals think entitlements and the like must NEVER be taken away, only added to.
If they want to ruin their own economies with taxes and fees and penalties like this imposed on their residents they are free to do so. They don’t get to impose that on n people in other states though.
Since the 1960s, when the commies realized that you can’t radicalize happy people, their motto has been “Worse is better.”
Americans are too happy to radicalize? Let’s make them miserable. Turn America into a shithole, then we can radicalize Americans and turn the country communist.
Anything that makes America a worse place is a victory for them.
Thanks to the stupid CAFE standards, we now have crappy CVT transmissions in many cars just because they can get 1 or 2 more miles per gallon. Toyota quit building the popular FJ Cruiser because it hurt their CAFE average. Ford began installing the horrible dual-clutch transmission in the Focus because it could eke out a higher MPG rating. And....don’t get me going on ethanol.....
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