I hear you. A couple of points...
I read a story a few years back, Obama appointees were talking to car makers in discussion about future fuel efficiency. At one point they’re informed, “we can’t violate the laws of physics”. This prompted the reply, “laws of what? who’s laws are we talking about? ...but this is why we’re here, we can change laws!!”. I don’t know how true it is but it made me chuckle, while shaking my head because it wouldn’t surprise me.
Another instance, the estimate of ~10,000 having been killed due to the single fact that government regulations in the 80’s, regarding fuel efficiency, turned our cars into rolling tin cans. They became less safe and people were killed because of it.
Why people have faith in government is beyond me. I’ve never seen anything happen quickly and efficiently, it just makes everything far more expensive than need be. It’s mostly a violation of the 80/20 rule. The EPA can require basic common sense rules that keep the vast majority of air and water clean. Do they stop there? No, the radicals keep pushing the envelope causing exponentially higher costs.
...and don’t get me started on FEMA. When this slumbering entity has to act it is too big to do so and when it fails the answer is always, “because it isn’t funded enough!”....which would only make it worse.
The government should just have tax laws that encourage the consumer to make choices that drive private companies to deliver environmentally friendly products, but not require it. If people want a muscle car that gets 10mpg that’s their wallet. If they don’t get a tax credit it’s a choice they made. Of course that’s not good enough for the climate extremists though.
I heard the same story... I do not know if it is true or not either, but to me this is very believable. I was one of the leaders of a hazmat team in a big city and one of our chiefs who rose through the ranks because of affirmative action ordered me to have the team do something that would have been a disaster.
When I told him that the resulting exothermic reaction would likely result in an explosion. He wanted to know how I knew this reaction would take place and when I replied something about the laws of chemistry and thermodynamics. He said he didn't care about those laws and that we should ignore them. I started laughing because I thought that he was kidding, but he became enraged.
But I had people on our hazmat team who would not stop believing that it was possible to get 100 mpg in an old pickup truck with the fabled special carburetor that was bought by the oil companies. I explained that the thermal efficiency of a V-8 internal combustion engine could not be increased enough by superior carburation for an old pickup to get 100 mpg. Even when I tried to show them mathematically that the 114,000 BTUs in a gallon of gas would not be enough energy to propel a two ton non-aerodynamic vehicle 100 miles down the road on rubber tires even if the engine operated at 100% efficiency they still would not believe me.