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Opinion: Trump's giveaway to Big Oil will accelerate climate change
CNN ^ | August 8, 2018 | By Leah C. Stokes

Posted on 08/08/2018 11:46:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Rather than saving people money in gas costs, cleaning up the air, or dealing with the climate crisis, the Trump administration announced its plan to roll back automobile fuel efficiency standards -- proposing to freeze the policy in a few short years.

Since cars and trucks are the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, the existing regulations are crucial in the effort to stop the climate crisis. Limiting pollution for cars is also important for human health, because dirty air from cars is bad for all of us.

We know the public will lose from this rollback. But who wins? Automakers, yes. But many carmakers are skeptical of the new plan, fearing regulatory uncertainty if complex legal battles drag on for years. Many carmakers would rather know what the rules are and comply.

Instead, big oil companies are the true winners in Trump's plan to roll back this policy. Under the new plan, they can continue to sell large volumes of their dangerous and expensive commodity for gas-guzzling cars.

Congress should be passing new efficiency standards for cars through a law that keeps everyone in this country safer from dirty air and dangerous climate change. If they acted, the Trump administration would not be able to make this harmful decision.

In the midterm elections this fall, we will see whether the public can elect a slate of politicians brave enough to truly take on the fossil fuel industry for the first time. The polluters should pay for the damages they knowingly wrought.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; drillbabydrill; fakenews; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; journalism; palinwasright
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some individuals can never rise above stupidity.


41 posted on 08/08/2018 1:17:03 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: abclily

Why by passing a law.. Duh .. I mean the gun laws in Chicago work so well.


42 posted on 08/08/2018 1:28:28 PM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In short, the authoress knows bupkis about the subject aside from hyperventilating phrases that she parrots.


43 posted on 08/08/2018 1:39:49 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: mass55th
Ride your bike or walk to wherever you want to go.

Even that will not extract her from the clutches of Carbon! Most bicycle tires are made with some form of a petroleum by product! Then, you still have chain oil and bearing grease derived from eeeeeevil petroleum!
44 posted on 08/08/2018 1:42:58 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Does she do brain surgery too?”

It depends on whether or not she self-identifies as a brain surgeon! ;)


45 posted on 08/08/2018 1:45:58 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: IC Ken

Don’t agree on the amount of ash. Many projections of a Yellowstone event leave much of the country with less than 10mm ash-fall. St. Helens is worth only about one-quarter of a millimeter over the whole of the area of the U.S., that’s roughly .010 inches.


46 posted on 08/08/2018 2:00:32 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Army Air Corps
"Even that will not extract her from the clutches of Carbon! Most bicycle tires are made with some form of a petroleum by product! Then, you still have chain oil and bearing grease derived from eeeeeevil petroleum!"

Oh, the huge manatee!!

47 posted on 08/08/2018 2:16:46 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never pay any attention to the ramblings of idiots. This one is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California Santa Barbara. She clearly has no idea what she is talking about.


48 posted on 08/08/2018 2:33:47 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, I think the market place will make the rolling back of fuel efficiency standards quite moot. I would think, as gas prices rise, consumers will start demanding car makers to return to 80s with smaller size automobiles. Honda Civics for example are behemoths compared to what they were in the early 90s.

I remember having a diesel rabbit - got 60 miles to the gallon. Unheard of now.


49 posted on 08/08/2018 2:39:28 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More like all the hot air coming from the hysterical left will create more hot air in the atmosphere for a bit but once they are shut up; thing will go back to normal.


50 posted on 08/08/2018 3:34:19 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: palmer

Those figures are all pulled out of someone’s arse.


51 posted on 08/08/2018 3:58:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: arthurus

There was also a study sometime back that a person riding a bicycle a mile expels more CO2 than a car.


52 posted on 08/08/2018 4:01:56 PM PDT by Hugin ("I fear for Hugin that he will not come back, yet I tremble more for Munin.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sort of a pleasant face but there is no brain under that hair!

She might convince me if she said that PRESIDENT Trump had purchased the Sun and was going to “accelerate climate change.” Then I might believe her sorry ass.


53 posted on 08/08/2018 4:52:56 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The slut Stokes has a degree in polysci, not climate science.

Shut your gum-cuzzling mouth, slutprof.

I'll bet her Twitter meltdown on Election 2016 day was epic. I;m going to go look.

54 posted on 08/08/2018 6:56:01 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Sam Gamgee
I remember having a diesel rabbit - got 60 miles to the gallon. Unheard of now.

My husband gets that in his Prius. But he really knows how to milk it. And no, he is not an environmental weenie, just a cheapo!

55 posted on 08/08/2018 7:04:57 PM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: MGunny

Her live-in boyfriend is TOTAL soy.


56 posted on 08/08/2018 7:10:21 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: CodeToad; All
"Opinion: Anyone claiming global warming is happening isn’t a scientist."

Where to start with this...

Virtually every scientist agrees that more CO2 going into the atmosphere causes some warming. I encourage you to read a lot of the content at Dr. Roy Spencer's site, he's an atmospheric physicist who's squarely in the "lukewarmer" camp (meaning there's a little warming going on but it's more or less harmless). He is of course regarded as a "climate denier" (whatever the heck that means) by the alarmists.

Here's a good introductory article:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/global-warming-101/

I hope the CO2 we've introduced into the atmosphere is enough to stave off the next Ice Age. The detrimental effects of even moderate warming would be nothing compared to the devastation an Ice Age would cause...and we're due for one in a relatively short time.

I encourage everyone to become more scientifically literate. Science is a beautiful thing, and responsible for a great many benefits of modern life.

57 posted on 08/09/2018 7:02:10 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: PreciousLiberty

“Virtually every scientist agrees that more CO2 going into the atmosphere causes some warming. “

No, they don’t.

“I hope the CO2 we’ve introduced into the atmosphere “

Again, an increase in CO2 cannot be directly related to man.

Again, anyone claiming coincidences are the fault of man is not a scientist. I guess that includes you.


58 posted on 08/09/2018 7:43:23 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad; All
"Again, an increase in CO2 cannot be directly related to man."

That is simply not the case. The quantity of gas in the atmosphere is well understood. The amount of extra CO2 human civilization emits is easily bounded. There is absolutely no doubt that the majority of the change from ~280 PPM in 1900 AD to >400 PPM today has been caused by humans.

Does that worry me? Not at all, but it IS a fact.

"Again, anyone claiming coincidences are the fault of man is not a scientist. I guess that includes you."

You are propagating undiluted ignorance. Educate yourself.

Again, Roy Spencer is highly qualified and provides an actual unbiased look at the science on his site. That's a good starting point.

59 posted on 08/09/2018 7:57:32 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: PreciousLiberty

“That is simply not the case”

Says the liberal Luddites blaming man for everything.

Same idiots claimed man created the Ozone Hole and we just HAD to ban CFCs. We did ban CFCs. The Ozone Hole is still there.

I am a scientist. I’m not a little 12 year old girl who says, “But, Daddy! Everyone knows...”


60 posted on 08/09/2018 7:59:50 AM PDT by CodeToad
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