Trump to Challenge California Mileage Standard

[applegrove]

Trump to Challenge California Mileage Standard

September 5, 2019 at 5:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 51 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/05/trump-to-challenge-california-mileage-standard/

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“The Trump administration is moving forward with a proposal to revoke part of California’s authority to set its own automobile gas mileage standards, in another confrontation with a state that has repeatedly challenged environmental rollbacks,” the AP reports.

“The Environmental Protection Agency was preparing paperwork for the White House that would set a single national standard for fuel economy.”

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Kabuki theater...

Actually, raising the standards won't do that much. The automakers are not going to reverse all the engineering they've done over the past decades to increase efficiency.

I suppose the oil companies would love it, but I don't think that they can mandate cars the get lower gas mileage. Not to mention, the rest of the world is laughing at us. They're not going to change their cars to be less efficient.

[applegrove]

3. I hope you are right.

[tymorial]

4. Ethanol is a major contributor to why gas mileage is poor

Not to mention numerous studies raise questions as to whether it's use has had any positive impact on our environment. Renewable doesn't necessarily equate to positive.

[tanyev]

2. Are they going to punish companies that exceed the national standard?

[spanone]

5. determined to destroy our country.

didn't reTHUGS claim to be the party of states rights?

[Volaris]

6. Ya know, as much as these fuckers claim to lurve them some States Right,

and hate-es them some Big Gubmint, you'd think they wouldn't give a dry fuck what california did with it's own standards for cars...

I suppose the upside is that from now on, every argument they could possibly think to make about what they claim to believe on any debate stage can be countered with 4 words:

Ummmmm....what about Trump?

[RhodeIslandOne]

7. They know how to hit every buzzword issue for their brain dead followers n/m