Posted on 01/14/2017 7:33:06 AM PST by mtrott
This is why a citizen legislature was so important. Anyone who lives in the real world knows 50 MPG is ridiculous. You can't legislate scientific breakthroughs and the engineering technology to go along with that.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Obama and the Democrats, it is that you can do whatever you want to do.
“Congress does NOT do oversight anymore and kill ridiculous regulations. “
I find myself clutching my gun and bible and praying that Trump’s pick to head the EPA will go through the place with a flamethrower. I try not to put too much into the thought as I would rather be pleased with a little progress than disheartened by not enough. Theglassishalffull, theglassishalffull...
Reduce the EPA’s budget to $0.00. Aw, heck with that...just eliminate the entire department. Better in the long run.
“fuel economy requirements that force the auto industry to make new cars and trucks significantly more efficient”
Fuel economy and fuel efficiency are two different things.
IF they could design a 3-ton sedan driven by a V-10 internal combustion engine (gasoline) that gets 30 miles per gallon, that would be a very efficient vehicular drive train.
When they design cars for mere fuel economy, they’re just trying to raise the average MPG per vehicle, which usually requires an increase in lightweight materials, low-mass components and smaller overall vehicle dimensions, not to mention the move away from internal combustion engines that run on gasoline or Diesel fuel.
In reality they do.. by fiat. That’s what all these damn regulations are and it’s not just the EPA it’s pretty much every damn governmental entity.
Note also that there was a sudden HUGE increase in asthma rates that seems to coincide with that same change in gasoline formulation and additives.
Lead most certainly should have been removed, but whatever they are using now has negative effects as well.
They can have my vehicles when they pull my dead body out of one of them.
Realistically, the EPA should revert to the standards that were in place before Bill Clinton became President. Everything they've done since then has been designed solely to justify their jobs.
Yes, after having a number of premature small engine deaths, I started using “true fuel”
The purpose of all of this last minute crap is to giv the media Fake News when Trump changes it. Trump should have done responses in the can for when this happens.
“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.”
Agreed! There’s many good reasons to get rid of the whole mandate to add alcohol to gasoline.
As Mr. Scott of the Enterprise so eloquently put it:
“I canna change the laws of physics!”
I’d like a sensible chemist or two explain the reality of corn laced engine killing ethanol.
I buy ethanol free as much as possible. My old stuff gets nothing but.
Hope that flamethrower doesn’t have an ethanol blend.
It’ll take more, cost more, and eat up the seals and gaskets too soon.
“Even without the standards, industry analysts say automakers will have to make the efficient cars anyway to comply with strict mileage and pollution requirements in California, Europe and China.”
Yeah, and Trump/auto mfg. can tell CA to shove it up their a$$!
Lead - over rated. I used to chew on the old lead lined toothpaste tubes back in the day and later made lots of lead soldiers. Still going and physically working people 1/2 my age ‘under the table’.
Heavy metals - ummmh good! Especially in one’s car engine.
Projecting into the near future...
What EPA?
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