Posted on 03/30/2020 12:55:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is expected to relax ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’ single-biggest efforts against climate change.
The Trump administration is expected to release a final rule Tuesday on mileage standards through 2026, watering down a tough Obama mileage standard that would have encouraged automakers globally to ramp up production of electric vehicles and more fuel-efficient gasoline vehicles.
Trump’s Cabinet heads have continued a push to rollback public health and environment regulations despite the coronavirus outbreak riveting the world’s attention. The administration - like others before it - is facing procedural rules that will make changes adopted before the last six months of Trump’s current term tougher to throw out, even if the White House changes occupants.
The Trump administration says the looser mileage standards will allow consumers to keep buying the less fuel-efficient SUVs that U.S. drivers have favored for years. Opponents say it will undercut the Obama administration’s legacy effort to cut climate-damaging fossil fuel emissions, and will kill hundreds more Americans a year through dirtier air, compared to the Obama standards.
The Obama administration mandated 5% annual increases in fuel economy. Leaked versions of the Trump administration’s latest proposal show a 1.5% annual increase, backing off from its initial proposal simply to stop mandating increases in fuel efficiency after 2020.
The transportation sector is the nation’s largest source of climate-changing emissions.
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With the Elites on their private planes with no environmental concerns, why should the tax peons in their 30-40 mpg cars be further regulated?
Good, but GM may have damaged their brand already.
Trump transforms America for the better.
This is great news. On his out the door Obongo put these in on the way out the door to meet them you practically had suspend the laws of physics. Either that or have $45,000 golf carts to drive.
IF the market wants a car that gets 40 mpg that will sell. IF not, it won't sell.
Someone’s got to burn all that oil building up in a glut.
Oh...I love that picture...daring myself to put on FB
Kinda suggests they know the COVID-19 story line is about to implode.
Only in America, kids. Only in America.
Anything and everything that can be done to erase the Kenyanesian Usurpation can and should be done.
O’Bungler:
no science
No smarts
Not a SMIDGEN of integrity
“damaging fossil fuel emissions”
No editorializing here!
AP propaganda purveyed as news
Just note the flag is the 48 star version. Hmmm no Hawaii or Alaska?
Wow. Let’s just pretend that rig is street legal for a moment.
Dumping CAFE would be fantastic. It distorts car designs like you can’t believe l bet CAFE adds 5-10 thousand to the price of a car.
Excellent! More Obama idiocy swept away.
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