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Posted on 05/19/2025 4:26:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department is expected to declare that fuel economy rules issued under then President Joe Biden exceeded the government's legal authority by including electric vehicles in setting the rules, automakers said on Monday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday submitted its interpretive rule, "Resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program" to the White House for review.
He said in a statement the prior administration had "illegally used CAFE standards as a backdoor electric vehicle mandate – driving the price of cars up."
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Until some low life judge stops the Administration.
Some little judge will disagree and declare that the government's legal authority is infinite and that absolutely anything Joe Biden wanted to do is A-OK. However, there is a "Trump exclusion" which does alter this equation and does impose very strict limits on the legal authority of the current president.
they had to wait till he was out of office to launch a suit?
Little play on words with the “backdoor “ considering who was the last transportation secretary
EPA requirements are why cars are ridiculously complicated.
Shitcan CAFE completely.
You nailed it EXACTLY, CCG. Good summary.
Oh I remember some conservative Non Profit Organization sued to stop the change and a local District Federal Judge issued a Nationwide TRO……. Or was that a dream? 🤔
Prosecute the triggerman.
Wrong thread. Sorry.
I’m waiting for some judge to RULE that Musk cannot send people to Mars!
ALL fuel economy rules exceed the authority of the gubmint.
Just negate every law and regulation made during the Potato Puppet regime.
It is now patently obvious that the entire four years of his so-called administration was illegitimate on every front from the start.
After having an illegitimate prez like Biden, it should be “Just shut everything down & start over”.
“ALL fuel economy rules exceed the authority of the gubmint.”
No congress has the power to regulate. They alone have such power. The check on that is the executive veto or the Supremes finding the law itself is unconstitutional. Congress was set up by design to be the body that makes laws and regulations since they directly answer to the people via the house. The Senate was supposed to be the State’s(<< capitalized on purpose as the State’s were sovereign until they lost in 1865.) Representatives two of them elected by each State’s own legislatures it took a terrible amendment to the U.S. Constitution to change that and the State’s have been lesser for it ever since.
The U.S. Congress absolutely has the authority to regulate any aspect of the economy the commerce clause is clear there. Congress has let via lack of will the bureaucratic agencies created by Congress itself issue rulings by bureaucratic fiat, it is Congress who has failed they can and should issue direct law rulings signed by the executive into clear and concise USC code. They won’t because they lack the political will or mandate to do so.
This is primary school level civics.
While true, they do NOT have the POWER to conjure things up outta thin air.
EPA requirements are why we can have small trucks like the old Ford Ranger, Chevy S10, Dodge Ram50, ect.
There is a high demand for affordable utility trucks.
Lets hope this administration can fix that.
The EPA put special and more stringent fuel regulations on small trucks. These regulations made building a small truck that met the requirements impossible. The EPA, by the way it wrote the regulations has driven manufacturers to bigger and bigger trucks. Compare a nineteen nineties Ford F150 with one of today. The truck today is significantly larger than its predecessor, all because of poorly considered and arbitrary regulations.
It’s not hard to make an argument for that.
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