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Obama's EPA moves to preserve gas mileage requirements(and ruin our cars)
Fox News Auto/AP ^ | January 13, 2017

Posted on 01/14/2017 7:33:06 AM PST by mtrott

The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to cement strict fuel economy requirements that force the auto industry to make new cars and trucks significantly more efficient, a decision that will be difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo.

The EPA said in late November that it had completed a required midterm review of Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards put in place in 2012 and decided they should not be relaxed as requested by the auto industry. The move in the waning days of the Obama administration brought protests from the industry, which accused the agency of playing politics with a rushed determination.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: epa; epaoutofcontrol; gasoline; obama
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"Friday's action keeps in place pollution reduction targets for the years 2022-2025. That means the fleet of new cars will have to average 51.4 miles per gallon by 2025, up more than 18 mpg from the 33.2 mpg requirement in 2015, the most recent year available."

These are ridiculously high mileage requirements, which would result in many Americans being forced to drive dinky, unsafe vehicles.

IMO, a more legitimate and beneficial goal for the Federal Government would be to come up with a national energy policy that focuses on exploration and production of energy resources, so as to provide a reliable and affordable energy products for the American people. That way, people would be able to afford to purchase the fuel needed for quality and safe to drive vehicles.

I am going to contact both the Trump transition suggestion site and my congress critters, as I am incensed that Obama would try to do this to American drivers and auto makers in the last few days of his term. Here is the Trump suggestion web site link:

https://apply.ptt.gov/yourstory/

1 posted on 01/14/2017 7:33:06 AM PST by mtrott
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To: mtrott

The EPA does not make laws.


2 posted on 01/14/2017 7:34:21 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And congress does not have to provide funding for any enforcement


3 posted on 01/14/2017 7:36:51 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: mtrott

The real question is: who’s whispering in this worthless piece of crap’s jug ears instructing him to do this?


4 posted on 01/14/2017 7:37:13 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: mtrott

Screw Obama and his attempts to play to the radical liberal base and control our lives. Another target for Trump to just trash the EPA and clean out the Obama stooges.


5 posted on 01/14/2017 7:37:44 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: mtrott
a decision that will be difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo.

Oh really!


6 posted on 01/14/2017 7:39:16 AM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: mtrott

I would be curious to hear what Scott Pruitt has to say about this.


7 posted on 01/14/2017 7:39:30 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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“Friday’s action keeps in place pollution reduction targets for the years 2022-2025”

Next Friday’s action will make it all meaningless and a lesson for future generations not to repeat such stupid actions.


8 posted on 01/14/2017 7:39:32 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

True, but regulations have the effectively same force of law.


9 posted on 01/14/2017 7:40:00 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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As far as I’m concerned the move from leaded to unleaded ruined gas mileage and increased the price dramatically - ethanol just compounds the problem.


10 posted on 01/14/2017 7:40:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“The EPA does not make laws.”

Here is my understanding of how it works. Congress passes a bill that, for example, all cars must get 50 miles per gallon by 2030. They assign the authority to write that law into regulations to the EPA (or other appropriate agency.) The EPA then generates a mountain of regulations that they feel will be needed to meet the intent of the law. Those regulations have the force of law. Violations of the law can be fined or involved prison terms, depending.

Violation of many regulations count as a criminal act. For example, I know someone who was cited for illegal burning. It was a criminal arrest. Had he paid the fine and the $1500 mandated “criminal intervention” program then the criminal part would be erased from his record. (Ultimately, it’s all about money.) He was unable to do so. The state took his driver’s license, which is how they motivate you to pay. He lost his job, his marriage and has been living on welfare ever since. This was about five years ago. The state now pays all his medical and his food.

The state is an uncaring, illogical monster.


11 posted on 01/14/2017 7:42:39 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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This is an easy one. Trump will crush the EPA like a bug. No bureaucracy has this kind of power over a President.


12 posted on 01/14/2017 7:43:14 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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The impending REINS Act will allow Congress to overturn this rule. Obama thinks he’s being clever.

Any rule that imposes $100 million worth of costs upon the economy must receive congressional approval before it can take effect.

Good night midnight regulations.


13 posted on 01/14/2017 7:43:24 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Obama is like Saddam Hussein’s troops did as they were pushed out of Kuwait in Gulf War I....setting fire to the oil wells in his own petty way.


14 posted on 01/14/2017 7:44:57 AM PST by CASchack
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It’s an impossible goal. But since the democrats hate the freedom of mobility that cars represent, they want the goal to be impossible. Their desire is to rid the world of the automobile.


15 posted on 01/14/2017 7:45:08 AM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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But congress did not pass a bill that cars get 50 MPG. Obama asked EPA to come up win the new(ridiculous) standards. They call it an “agreement”.


16 posted on 01/14/2017 7:46:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
This will not stand. A new EPA will rescind but It will be challenged and that's probably the basis for claiming it will be difficult to overturn. It will necessitate surviving the liberal 9th DC circuit to get to the Supremes.

This court, by the way was loaded by Harry Reid. IIRC, they added 2 judges to go from 9 to 11 to swing the balance there in the most important circuit court in the land. There is talk of reloading the court with another expansion.

What if the auto industry refused to comply ?...with DjT and a new EPA covering their back. ?

17 posted on 01/14/2017 7:47:04 AM PST by chiller (One from the Right - One for the Fight)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Exactly, one decree can be undone by another.


18 posted on 01/14/2017 7:48:30 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: mtrott

I certainly wish we could get rid of ethanol - what a horrible idea. Drops mileage by at least 3.5% as ethanol has about 1/3 less energy than gasoline and is 10% of the fuel - but in the real world it is more likely to be 6-10% reduction.


19 posted on 01/14/2017 7:49:06 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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The EPA does not make laws.

The Congress could have reined them in long ago but opted not to - hope that changes very soon.

6 MORE DAYS!!!

20 posted on 01/14/2017 7:50:04 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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