Posted on 01/30/2025 6:10:16 PM PST by Mariner
DETROIT (AP) — Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it regulates air pollution and addresses climate change. Duffy ordered the federal agency in charge of fuel economy standards to reverse them as soon as possible. The standards have been in place since the 1970s energy crisis and were intended to conserve fuel and save consumers money at the gas pump.
Here are five things to know about the action.
What is the Trump administration doing exactly?
Duffy ordered his chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to "propose the rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards" necessary to bring the rules in line with Trump's priority of promoting oil and biofuel.
The order came in a DOT memorandum Tuesday night. Duffy said the rules need to better align with the administration’s overarching agenda because “the existing CAFE standards promulgated by NHTSA are contrary to Administration policy.”
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But all the winning has made me nearly numb...
CO2 is fertilizer.
Jam that fact down the throats at the EPA and CARB.
Yep, the winning continues unabated. GO TRUMP GO
The reason we can’t have little pick-ups and efficient small cars that people could afford is because Congress screwed u the way MPG is figured. The standard is based on wheelbase and makes it impossible to have really efficient cars
All of a sudden, I’m itchin’ for a hemi.
Duffy ordered his chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to “propose the rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards” necessary to bring the rules in line with Trump’s priority of promoting oil and biofuel.
rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards.
think about that, especially the recission.
next will be carbon emissions?
Bozzella said U.S. tailpipes are overseen by three federal agencies and multiple rules, so changes the Trump administration proposes to the CAFE standards will have to be coordinated with the other emissions rules overseen by EPA and the Energy Department.
Man, these guys don’t mess around. Hope they can claw back most of that green new deal money.
A little off-topic, Duffy’s daughter Evita Duffy (early 20’s) does a warm-up show every day for Dan Bongino. She is well-spoken and rather calm unlike Dan and is usually about 1/2 hour and sums up the news if you don’t have much time. It’s on Spotify, don’t know if it is elsewhere. She made the point that her father’s first act was to deal with the plane crash, sad. Her mother is on FOX News and rather accomplished also.
Shut down at least two of those agencies. Maybe all three.
“The standards have been in place since the 1970s energy crisis and were intended to conserve fuel and save consumers money at the gas pump.”
Fuel economy did increase.
And states started getting LESS tax back from people fueling up.
And this could not be!
So they turned around and jacked the tax on gas up.
Heck in recent years NJ voted twice to increase the tax on gas because it was sold to them as only targeting out of state drivers.
So the idiots voted for it without considering that there’s no way to selectively target a tax like that and it would be illegal to do so.
When will the crazy regs for air conditioners and refrigerators be rescinded? The A/C regs are so SEER “efficient,” they hardly work in humid Florida, and the cost is approaching another mortgage.
Maybe soon we’ll be “allowed “ to acquire Toyota Hi-lux Diesel vehicles which are the World standard for medium trucks and SUVs, get better mileage than gassers, and run forever.
“so changes the Trump administration proposes to the CAFE standards will have to be coordinated with the other emissions rules overseen by EPA and the Energy Department.”
Luckily the EPA and DOE work for Trump so, no problem.
Wisconsin’s Sean Duffy! MAGA!
Sean Duffy knows the real world.
(See what I did there?)
“The reason we can’t have little pick-ups and efficient small cars that people could afford is because Congress screwed u the way MPG is figured. The standard is based on wheelbase and makes it impossible to have really efficient cars”
Can you explain or provide a reference.
That whole family is rock-ribbed Republican Wisconsinites. America is LUCKY to have Sean in this position! MAGA!
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You don't know what I got"
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