President Joe Biden will direct U.S. agencies to revise fuel economy standards and emissions restrictions, including those for passenger vehicles and airplanes, according to the latest reports.
In a recent post, Reuters states that Biden’s presidential transition team has indicated that the president-elect will reverse Trump-era energy rules, including a rollback on U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, fulfilling a campaign promise to revise fuel economy standards established under the Trump administration.
The Trump administration previously set a 1.5-percent annual fuel efficiency increase through 2026, revising the 5-percent increase established under the Obama administration. The standards rollback was estimated to result in an increase in oil consumption of 2 billion additional barrels and 867 million metric tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere, according to the Trump administration.
Additionally, Biden will ask agencies to reexamine the revocation of California’s right to set its own statewide emissions standards and zero-emissions vehicle requirements. The Trump administration revoked the more stringent California standards in 2019.
Back in November, GM announced that it was withdrawing its support for the Trump administration’s legal fight to overturn California’s right to set more stringent emissions standards. California accounts for roughly 12 percent of the U.S. auto market.
Additionally, President Biden is expected to direct the EPA to reexamine new greenhouse gas emissions standards for airplanes published just a few weeks ago.
Among Biden’s priorities is spending for more than half a million new all-electric vehicle charging stations, as well as tax credits for new EV purchases and EV production.
GM has previously stated that it is gearing up to release 30 new EVs by 2025, two-thirds of which will be sold in North America. The automaker has pledged billions of dollars in investments into new EV and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies.
In November, GM acknowledged Biden’s win in the U.S. presidential election and indicated that it was looking forward to “working with the new administration and incoming Congress on policies that support our customers, dealers and employers, help strengthen our manufacturing presence in the United States and advance [GM’s] vision of an all-electric, zero-emissions future.”
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Sounds like GM will sleep with anyone!
If Trump were reelected GM would be proclaiming a different line.
GM Government Motors once again getting ready for big handouts at taxpayers expense.
and selling their souls right to china again.
Rumor is Hunter will be heading G.M. China reporting directly to Beijing.
MzMyANX
I believe the latest QAnon conspiracy theory has Joe Biden and his son Hunter, working to expose a child sex trafficking ring. Basically a group of Russian Oligarchs head by Vladimir Putin would supply Russian Children to the Hotel, Resort & Casino Empires of Sheldon Adelson & Donald Trump.
Biden wants to install 1/2 mill charging stations. Great, so taxpayers will be on the hook for replacing them every two years when the technology is obsoleted with the next gen version.
Lets see now ,rolling blackouts even in winter in CA.,
How’s it going to be when you have millions more of EV’s on the road.Ahh that’s just details.
And cancelling XL Pipeline. Even Canada doesn’t agree.
Along with 60k union jobs gone. Screwed the unions, again
The unions need to realize the folks in DC will take their money but they will get little in return.
Rainbow
60K Union jobs.
Are you high? No “F” in way. Is it going to take 60,000 workers to build that pipeline.
60K=60,000.
Rainbow
Why don’t you come back after you’ve had your morning coffee. When you are awake and alert.
Why don’t you go ahead and provide a different number then if you’re so sure of yourself big guy, instead lobbing around stupid insults? Want to give that a go? Or nah?
G8burnout
In 2016 Presidential Candidate Donald Trump said it would create 28,000 Jobs. And after 4 years of Construction exactly Zero miles of this pipeline have been built. So my guess would be Zero Jobs.
So there was 4 years of construction that was completed by zero workers? Is that what I’m hearing here? I hate to break it to you champ, but building a pipeline requires WAY more work than actually assembling the physical pipe. And beyond that, as far as the amount of pipeline being constructed, it’s well over 300 miles anyway, dude…so I suggest you do a bit more research.
Ending the pipeline kills thousands of union jobs. Period. Before you want to play internet know-it-all, you’d batter make sure you know what the hell you’re talking about. Next time, just come right out and say you prioritize the climate over good-paying jobs, which is the ACTUAL truth here behind your nonsense comments.
G8burnout
300 miles in 4 years 1200 miles to go. At that rate the pipeline wouldn’t be finished until 2036. Every new vehicle sold in the U.S. will be electric in 2036.
Nope, false again. The pipeline construction began mid-2019, 300 miles in a year and a half. You truly know nothing about this topic, dude…just stop.
G8burnout
After getting White House approval it took them 2 1/2 years to restart construction.
I know that pipeline will never be built.
Hmm
I’ve been hearing about the Keystone XL pipeline for over a decade. If it’s that important to you right wingers. YOU CAN’T HAVE IT!
C’mon mixing Canadian Tar Sands with hazardous chemicals, and heating it up to temperatures above 106F just to get it to flow. Then bringing it south. Through some of our nations most productive farmland. Crossing rivers that supply drinking water for 60 million Americans. In support of a dying fuel source. All so 85 year old Charles Koch can have a few billion more dollars to stuff in his mattress.
This is why the Republican Party deserves to die.
Will they be eliminating the SAFE rules? Besides the reduction to 1.5% per year the SAFE was to reduce average vehicle costs and increase vehicle safety. My guess is all that is going out the window because it was passed by the “orange man” and “orange man bad”
Steven
Orange man asked Russia to interfere with 2016 election. (It’s on video tape) and they did.
Orange man separated families at boarder. Now we have 600 kids whose families we can’t find.
Orange man refused to wear a mask during a pandemic. 400,000 dead Americans under his watch.
Orange man tried to become dictator.
Orange man will burn in Hell for all eternity. Because
Orange man very bad.
Wish I could respond to you face to face. It would be fun to watch your expression as I destroy everything you just commented on. But then, libs, are just ignorant and have no conscience or even a slight recognition of history, so it would be futile, their hypocrisy is what they live on.
Jeff
Are you asking me out on a date?
You don’t get it.
you are inciting violence
We are not in crisis mode due to auto emissions. Today the auto emissions are one of the least contributing issues.
The EV programs are already started and will be coming on. While we need to get charging stations open the government should not be paying for them. Give tax breaks to those willing to invest in them and keep the government out of more dead end loans.
Finally keep the Oil pipeline intact. It is going to make things cleaner. It will benefit both Canada and the US. We are not dependent on foreign oil now. We need to keep this way and the pipeline will do that. Not to mention the construction job it is creating.
Even the liberal leader of Canada is disappointed.
The reason they want the pipeline stopped is because they want it to go by rail. The lobbyist have spent a ton of Buffett’s money to lose the pipeline. Also China wants the line gone as most of the oil will go to them with no pipe line.
This is deeper than just politics.
Sad thing is Biden himself probably doesn’t even agree with stopping the pipeline. Like mentioned it’s all the special interest groups he’s beholden to. I hope someday we can return to a government that actually serves the people.
That is even worse than not agreeing with it and stopping it.
The thing missed about the Capital deal last week was this. Only a small number breached the building and did damage. The rest were just standing around showing their dissatisfaction with the way our government works or as in this case not works.
CNN sits and marvels why half the country supported Trump. The reason is they are so dissatisfied with what we have now in both parties they were willing to vote for him. We will see the same with Biden as he is part of the old system that is being controlled by the far left now.
Only Mancin from WV was willing to speak up. I expect they will attack him now.
The rules are gone in DC. Have been for a while.
What Mike Pompeo said the other day was chilling but true. It does not bode well for the future.
Here is what Pompeo stated.
“Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,”
I can recall even back at 911 where we were all Americans no matter our back ground. Now today we have people openly speaking out in favor for people who would do harm to our country.
For 200 years people came here to become American not bla bla bla Americans.
You don’t get it either.
I get it.
If it is not far left it is racist, sexist, homophobic, Claustrophobic, Agoraphobic, Barophobia, Halitophobia, and
Phobophobia.
The truth is there is strength in unity. To bring all of us together but to keep us apparat is a path of failure.
Our country was built with a make up of many cultures and many ideas. It was once called the melting pot. Today it is a place where many work hard to drive division in many ways leading to our country becoming weak.
We need to work as one and respect our differences or we will fail. And that is what many want.
The fantasy of everyone feeling and believing the same only happens in places like China or N Korea where you may die if you don’t follow the government line.
C8.R: You are correct, Sir 👍
after four years, you are starting to “connect the dots”? hilarious!!!
No surprise here, but damaging on so many economic and business levels. These eco-nuts will drive fuel prizes up and up, and they don’t care who it hurts. Electric cars and other electric things may come about, but let the frre market invent and perfect them instaed of the guberment mandating ridiculous deadlines and specs!
I love how Joe is fixing and reversing all Donald’s dumb decisions. Its a great day.
and making things even dumber, wait until you suffer big time
I have suffered enough from reading your narrow minded comments on this site.
I know!! Look how practically overnight, we’re suddenly beating Covid!! All in how ya spin it
add $1 a gallon to the price of fuel and that is a paper bag of groceries to low income families, elections have consequences
will the 5 people ignorant to the fact for some families $30 extra a week for fuel will mean less food for there family. explain yourself
No, they won’t. The Internet is for the faux tough guys.
As usual They go wherever the wind blows and now it is with sleepy Joe.
What these car companies need is consistentency. You cant chart a path forward if the next administration does nothing but cancel what the previous administration does and then 4 years later everything is turned upside down.
Biden Administration Asking Agencies To Bend America over
And take it up the rear.
Hooray for one term Biden.