California Approves Stricter Vehicle Pollution Rules As Trump Orders Federal Review
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President Trump most recently announced the EPA would reopen a review into the Obama-era CAFE standards, leaving some corporations and environmentalists painted different shades of red. However, California has gone and rebuked the review entirely by approving the 2022-2025 regulations for the state.
Reuters reports the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved stricter pollution and fuel economy regulations and also set a mandate for zero-emission vehicles sold over the 2022-2025 time period. Nearly a dozen states follow California’s lead regarding vehicle regulations, which could create conflict between state rights and the federal government.
A White House official, who said the administration was preparing for a “Yes” vote from California, stated the Trump administration was focused on providing affordable vehicle and protecting jobs.
“We are disappointed that California has chosen to refuse our good-faith offer to work together with all relevant stakeholders on this important matter,” the person said.
The regulations approved in California will mandate a 38.3 MPG average in 2021, but top out at 46.3 in 2025. Previously, the U.S. government estimated the fuel economy regulations will create a $1,000 price increase on new vehicles, which is thought to be outweighed by the potential savings at the fuel pump.
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is California trying to destroy their economy? it happens in France all the time where people on the eastern border go into Germany where auto taxes are significantly less. (I was in France for the years 2014-2016 ) how will this be enforced? are they going to restrict the number of SUV’s on the lots and mandate that EV’s will be sold? Gm will just keep their trucks as they are and sell them in Nevada and consumers will do business in other states. Americans love our suv’s too much
The economy is always more important than humanity. Always.
Until people die of poisoning and starvation from having destroyed their environment. This has happened in human history and it’s happening again.
Trump will lose another battle again because he’s wrong and a LOSER. Lol
Just like his supporters.
I am happy that California and other States prove that Trump will not get his way. The people voted for the States, and the electorial college voted for the President. The people are the “Boss”, not Trump.
Keep the CAFE and EPA regulations! Thanks to them, many cities can breathe clean air!!
California’s principles are rotting on the vine just like its roads and infrastructure and the pious clean air standards will help Elon Musk when he finally builds his Model 3 but few others. Anyone who takes clean air and global warming seriously realizes that the strictly “not in my backyard” mentality of the leftist California faux environmentalists is as deeply flawed as their elitist liberal body politic. These are the same people that demand ever larger and more decadent SUVs and expect the industry to miraculously accommodate under increasingly super stringent regulations. The push for ride sharing services and rapid development of autonomous cars dispenses yet more of our nation’s finite wealth into the pockets of the already bleedingly overpriviliged, self deified tech sector and the goal is to eventually take automobiles out of reach of the proletariat altogether. As the paradigm continues its shift, automobile ownership will become more and more a luxury reserved for the wealthy and everyone else (aka the “poorly educated” and the servant classes) will be pressured to rideshare as vehicles necessarily become increasingly hyper-tech and expensive. One only needs to pick up the latest issue of Motor Trend which could just as well be renamed Ridiculous and Asinine Toys for a Disgustingly Wealthy and Self Important Uberclass. These folks have undeniably bolstered inequality by sucking up gross percentages of the nation’s wealth and influence. Not to take it away from them, they got there because they’re savvy innovators who flexed their political muscle to buy politicians and promote a self-serving globalist economic agenda so they could pollute to high heaven overseas beyond the grasp of the US’s pesky environmental laws and work their grossly underpaid foreign employees like livestock behind a mask of “progressive” humanitarian environmentalist superiority, spelled h-y-p-o-c-r-I-s-y. That’s deep blue California in a nutshell.
Wake up. You’ve been duped.
Dunning-Kruger Effect – Cornell University – folks who are too dumb to know they are dumb become super-confident. Smart people tend to doubt whether their performance was better than the dummy, even when there is evidence to prove it.
Jon Haidt – NY Stern School of Business – dumb folks always think their “hunches” and “gut instinct” are reliable (now the weird part…) because god makes things disgusting to tell us they are wrong. Basically, god has a telephone to your gut!
Cipolla’s five laws of stupidity:
1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
The reason I list these stupidity-researchers? I note that lefties always get down voted here, yet this uber-lefty gets up votes! Why, because y’all just read the last sentence! So freakn obvious you couldn’t be bothered to read the internal part of the post. Ha!
So idiot boy, here’s some truth. Millennials don’t want to buy cars! They don’t want the loans, the registration, the licensing, the repairs bills, the insurance, and all the hassle which goes with signing your name to documents which allow huge corporations to increase what you owe them, at will. Because of this, OEM’s only have old rich customers left, and in the future they will be hardware suppliers to ride-share companies, which is why GM bought Maven.
The companies were ALWAYS trying to rip us off. The millennials have found ways to fight back. I like them, a lot! They liked Bernie Sanders 6-1 over Billary (not Bill & Hill, no, Banker-Hillary). Next time, after even more old folks can’t vote from the grave, we’re going from Trump to the Greens!
Do you really think, through ride-share companies, people aren’t paying registration and insurance and them also? Carpooling already exists. There’s a lot of people that love loans, they just hate paying it back. Some of these people also hate suggestions to cut expenses and save.
People in California will do what they feel they have to do to cut smog. Whatever. But if only old, rich people will be able to buy cars in the future, it will be because the general public aquiesces to over-regulation.
Do you think Bernie “I don’t care about the emails” really intended to win? It’s obvious the DNC considered him a voter registration drive.
Doesn’t matter what I think about whether Bernie wanted to win or not. It matters to millennials as they take over the vote demography from old folks. Nothin y’all can do about it. 6-1 over Hilary folks, in the youngest demographic there is…
Btw, I knew Bernie wanted to win because he did win and Wasserman Shultz took it away.
-Only just over 50% of Americans voted in the last election which is the lowest in the Western world
-The turnout from the 25 and under demographics was abysmal.
Conclusion: nearly 50% of Americans couldn’t be bothered or didn’t give a hoot.
Now many of the people protesting didn’t even take the time to cast a vote.
Ultimately, you get the government that you deserve. So, suck it up boys!
Millennials didn’t vote because Wasserman Schultz took their candidate off the ballot. Without their permission…
I didn’t say they didn’t want to pay the cost of the service, and profits on top and everything. What I did say was the millennials didn’t want the way ownership ties you to contracts and other methods to guarantee future regular payments without choice being involved each step of the way.
As a millennial pays for an uber, they know up-front how much it is, even if it is a varying rate they lock it in at the moment of the ride. The millennial pays for everything (fee, rego, insurance, etc etc) right there and then in one step.
Next day the millennial wants the same ride. If they don’t own the car, and uber made them unhappy yesterday, today the millenial takes maven, or lyft, or sixt, or whoever. Y’know, choice-in-the-marketplace, every day in every way. How American!!!
Yes, in the end they pay just as much ,probably more. BUT, they don’t have to accept corporate abuse and neglect once they’ve signed the contract, which they don’t need to sign.
The smart and the stupid and most people in between would probably agree your loose application of scholastic references in support of generalizations and opinion that seems pretty shallow taken on its own merit is best described as “baffling with bull$h*!”. Clearly you’re the one most apt to drink your own Kool Aid.
But before I run off to lick my wounds, let’s be pals and agree that Millennials gladly fork out plenty of their own money every minute of every day to large corporations for the constantly evolving and costly technology that connects them. I could mention $5.00 lattes, video games, vape supplies and lots of other things but then I’d be stereotyping. Quite a few Millennials also buy cars. Here in California, red hot technology jobs provided by red hot tech corporations give countless Millennials more than sufficient wherewithal to take on loans, licensing, registration, insurance, repair bills and “all the hassle” to own some mighty impressive luxury and supercars built by…
You guessed it. The OEMs have plenty of rich, young customers to go around, probably just not where you happen to live. To the smart people go most of the spoils Poor Old Trombone.
So much for Millennials vs corporate America. Anyway, it’s anything but serendipitous that God rang me up on the gutphone because he wanted me to let you know that many of the Millennials you regard so highly probably wouldn’t appreciate the way you place them all in the same neat little box right alongside boxes of smart and stupid people – and that a surprising number of young people who initially supported Sanders cast their votes for Trump because they desired protection from the violence and hatred against women and gay people by certain immigrant religious groups that shall remain nameless and continued offshoring of US jobs. Jobs that could be their jobs as Bernie pointed out. He also badgered me into mentioning that the Greens will eventually gain traction when they finally align their way of living with their intoxicating but equally empty rhetoric; even God’s tired of the hypocrite’s failures being blamed on old folks, misogynists and racists. Honestly, I wish he would just send me an email or a text. Maybe we could Snapchat.
Old Trombone: It’ll be interesting to see how these jitney companies develop (that term seems very old-fashion). Yes any of you ones can agree, choice is very American. Though it does seem odd to give up having a personal vehicle (&control its service life) and having other parties know your travels.