Hey, Donald! 'Zoom-Zoom,' Babe! Trump and Pruitt are right about Obama's MPG rules

[TalkRadio]

Environmental and consumer groups are howling about the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to weaken fuel-economy standards President Barack Obama put in place in 2012. But Obama himself left his standards vulnerable to revision.

The original Obama plan was to set aggressive targets that would go progressively higher through model year 2025, when cars would have to average 54.5 miles per gallon. But a mid-term review was supposed to happen in 2018. Automakers and regulators would assess the technological progress needed to meet that goal, along with other factors, such as the types of vehicles consumers were actually buying. In theory, the 2025 target could be rolled back if it seemed technologically out of reach.

After Trump won the presidency in November 2016, Obama pulled a fast one. His EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, declared that the 2012 targets were final, more than a year before the EPA and automakers were supposed to review the data and decide on future targets together. Obama essentially threw the automakers under the bus. McCarthy was peppered with questions about whether the EPA sped up the final rulemaking simply because Trump won and might not support the Obama rules. She denied what was obvious to everybody.

So, not surprisingly, the auto industry appealed to the Trump administration a few months later to reconsider the 2025 targets. And Scott Pruitt, Trump’s EPA administrator, seems likely to oblige. He hasn’t yet said what, exactly, the EPA will do, but in a statement he said Obama, “cut the midterm evaluation process short with politically charged expediency” and “set the standards too high.” The forthcoming Trump standards will presumably be lower.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-pruitt-right-obama-mpg-rules-213926653.html

 

[WoundedKnee]

So you care more about corporate profits than you do saving the earth.

 

[bellisarius]

So you care more about corporate profits than you do saving the earth.

How much mileage does a horse and buggy get?

 

[Rightguide]

The EPA probably contains the biggest collection of communists, anti-capitalists, and arrested development flunkies, in government.

 

[bellisarius]

The EPA probably contains the biggest collection of communists, anti-capitalists, and arrested development flunkies, in government.

Fully invested in the AGW hoax.

 

[Amoebah]

The EPA probably contains the biggest collection of communists, anti-capitalists, and arrested development flunkies, in government.

The EPA was started by the Republicans, right?

 

[Luk]

The EPA probably contains the biggest collection of communists, anti-capitalists, and arrested development flunkies, in government.

No wonder the republicans created it! Sounds like the perfect gathering of dipshits.

 

[Luk]

The EPA was started by the Republicans, right?

Shaddup, Bert.

 

[Hypoxia]

How much mileage does a horse and buggy get?

25-35 pounds of shit and a dozen gallons of piss daily, so that's about the I/O. I know of small hilly vineyards and other farms on rugged terrain where horses are preferred over powered vehicles. The motive power fertilizes and irrigates as it functions; no special attachments required.

A great air quality improvement idea: Vent the exhaust of a motor vehicle to the cab. Clean vehicles won't poison you; polluters will. This will YUUGELY promote electric and modern steam. But no horse farts or hamster wheels.

 

[Rightguide]

25-35 pounds of shit and a dozen gallons of piss daily, so that's about the I/O. I know of small hilly vineyards and other farms on rugged terrain where horses are preferred over powered vehicles. The motive power fertilizes and irrigates as it functions; no special attachments required.

A great air quality improvement idea: Vent the exhaust of a motor vehicle to the cab. Clean vehicles won't poison you; polluters will. This will YUUGELY promote electric and modern steam. But no horse farts or hamster wheels.

A great air quality improvement idea: Regulate the Third World.

 

[beew]

Gosh, such a lackluster imitation of BBX…

 

[Luk]

A great air quality improvement idea: Regulate the Third World.

We already do, ya dope.

 

[Hypoxia]

We already do, ya dope.

But poorly. It's not a "well-regulated" Third World. More of a "fuck y'all" level of oversight. You're in the way, peasant? Well, fuck y'all and die.

USA *needs* a constant supply of pipsqueak boogers of enemies in foreign shitholes, to justify all the military spending and political posturing. Look, Afghanistan! Look, North Korea! Betcha Venezuela is on the list.

 

[WoundedKnee]

For its own protection and to save lives when the whole thing finally collapses into chaos. Yes, we have plans for that.

 

[Chancellor_Palpatine]

Fully invested in the AGW hoax.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AlarmedGraveKite-max-1mb.gif

 

[phrodeau]

25-35 pounds of shit and a dozen gallons of piss daily, so that's about the I/O. I know of small hilly vineyards and other farms on rugged terrain where horses are preferred over powered vehicles. The motive power fertilizes and irrigates as it functions; no special attachments required.

A great air quality improvement idea: Vent the exhaust of a motor vehicle to the cab. Clean vehicles won't poison you; polluters will. This will YUUGELY promote electric and modern steam. But no horse farts or hamster wheels.

The Soviets and Nazis used that trick to facilitate disposal of excess prisoners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_van

Holocaust deniers will tell you that it's totally ineffective.