Trump’s new head of DOT rips up US fuel efficiency regulations
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He wants to make cars less efficient.
This is a guy that's part of the same administration that has created a new (fake) department called the Efficiency department.
Says a lot about what this administration really wants.
This is a guy that's part of the same administration that has created a new (fake) department called the Efficiency department.
Says a lot about what this administration really wants.
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They're so old they don't care about the health of the environment; they'll all be dead in twenty years so it's not their problem. Their problem is the "high price" of vehicles conforming to lower emissions, but uh, I'm pretty sure that's just inflation and reflections of costs from the pandemic.
Or it's just a bunch of salty old men whining they can't buy their pavement princess giant diesel trucks that'll never pull anything.
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Just replaced my 10 year old Mazda 3 ICE with a brand-new Japanese-made Prius hybrid.
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<sigh> What's next? Mandates that all new cars must be coal-powered by 2027? That by 2032 all cars should be powered by wood-fired stoves fueled by copies of the US constitution? Someone down there in the current administration seen one too many post-apocalyptic movies in the 1980s and misunderstood the messages?
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Being old is maybe part of it but these people think Jesus is coming back any day now so may as well just strip mine the planet and get their bag on earth while they're alive, because only the sinners and unbelievers will have to deal with the ruined planet after all the believers get raptured.
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I'm pretty sure people who believe tripe like that couldn't determine good engineering period.
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you know what's really gonna make cars more efficient? bring back leaded gasoline!
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What a terrible burden it must have been for those poor, put-upon, tiny little car companies to have to make fuel-efficient vehicles! Why, it must have been exhausting work!
Who could possibly be so vile and villainous as to want cars to be <gulp> fuel-efficient? Nobody wants those any more! I want my car to only get 3 or 4 miles to the gallon! I want to pay through the nose for gas!
... said no sane person, ever.
Who could possibly be so vile and villainous as to want cars to be <gulp> fuel-efficient? Nobody wants those any more! I want my car to only get 3 or 4 miles to the gallon! I want to pay through the nose for gas!
... said no sane person, ever.
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For the love of the wee man, don't give them ideas.
"It smells better so it must be better!"
I can just hear it...
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A professional friend explained yesterday that he is getting calls asking if his IT consultancy can take a large number of employees, meaning the ones about to get fired due to remote work. Apparently he has already begun negotiating bring people from the US government on board his company, and well outside of just IT workers. Additionally he is negotiating having them work from home because he is telling them he can do this at a reduced price than bringing them on at the office. He laughed that of course he will be doubling their salary rates to take care of benefits and profit.
It was never about efficiency.
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RickRoyLeonPrisZhoraRacha
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Grew up watching commercials with crying Native American and pollution in waterways and skies. Signed up to be member of EPA and be active with Give a Hoot, don't Pollute.
Reality hits that in the commercial, the actor portraying the Native American wasn't. And that politicians allowed laws to create lobbyists and give rights to companies to pollute.
We are being lied to for greed. Your government no longer cares for the welfare of its base. Instead, it sells you ultra-processed food by companies that make it wealthy off your failing health (Cancer can be treated but oh, don't try to cure it...its profit disease!). Same with pollution... but hey, lets convince the public to get Greener with electric cars but then open-mine for its resources or exploit other countries to ruin their generations for your EV tax rebate. Or ban CFCs but then increase the cost of the appliance and make you spend more. All while raising interest rates so you can't afford healthy living and again, eat cheap, ultra-processed foods. Drink that diet coke, eat those sodium-rich meals, wash that orange chemical from your doritos or cheetos finger tips.
Guess that means Trump & Co will welcome Winterkorn to sell TDI vehicles here again, and promote AAPEX and SEMA to allow mods to diesels and ICE motors to get "more power and efficiency" exhaust!
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Republicans: LESS CENTRAL GUBMENT, MORE STATE'S RIGHTS
Also Republicans: Except California, because fuck you specifically.
Also Republicans: Except California, because fuck you specifically.
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I feel like reports of the current moment in history should be etched into some kind of tablet, and put somewhere for future generations to find, so that they will be able to know why a great civilization in their past was swept into the sea, and why they now eke out a living in a dust bowl.
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I don’t get that. Just straight up no electric vehicles no matter the circumstance? Does that include stuff like the post office? That just doesn‘t make sense
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Not at all. Duffy also wants to add tetra lead to the fuel again, to make america creative again.
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I just replaced my nearly 20 year old ICE Corolla with a brand-new RAV4 hybrid. It’s Canadian built, though. Didn’t think to try to get a J-VIN.
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My neighbor starts his diesel and lets it run for 30 minutes every day, before stomping the throttle to roll coal on his way to work. Wakes me up at 5AM almost every morning.
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The life expectancy of a US male is ~77 years, so he's only ~24 years away.
Checks out.
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It makes complete sense, given that this administration is dedicated to maximizing the use of fossil fuels. Drill baby drill.
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If vehicles do not need to be better in the USA, but everywhere else, in a future the USA car manufacturers will be all at disadvantage so they will disappear... I don't see anything bad about that.
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I don't think The Second Coming has anything to do with this. If these people actually adhered to any of the non-evil tenets of Christianity, they wouldn't behave as they do.
No, no, this is purely greed, plain and simple. Any barrier to them making more wealth must be torn down. They don't care about what the planet looks like for their children or (especially) anyone else's children. It's all about how much money they can acquire NOW.
Imagine if you knew that starting January 1st, 2026 all resources and products created, extracted, or otherwise obtained would be divided equally amongst all humans on the planet. You could acquire - at most - one eight-billionth of everything produced, be it food, minerals, lumber, or software. You'd have the urge to make sure that you spent the months leading up to that accumulating as much stuff as you possibly could, so you could continue on in comfort/luxury.
Well, that's how these guys feel all the time about anything that might possibly help anyone. Existential fear that they are going to have less privilige and stuff than they do now.
It doesn't matter to them the example of Bejing having to do extraordinary things to host the Olympics because of polution. That's fine, because they - individually - will be enjoying their private island resorts and mega-yachts. The voting populace is just a resource to be mined, and you get to live in the smog. They'd reintroduce leaded gas if it would let them make more money, even if your kids' IQs will drop because of it.
TLDR: this is greed, not faith.
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Doesn't matter if Duffy is 53 or not. They keep pulling stunts like this, removing environmental protections and increasing the pollution they'll be lucky to make it another 20 years.
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You mistake forgetting with not caring. They remember the 1970s as a great time where you could get away with anything and opt-out of any consequences by making a shit load of money. I mean, the latter part never really changed, but the regulations got a bit too onerous.
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American cars have never been competitive in the European market, but at least they were mostly street legal. Soon they won’t even be legal to buy, or drive near cities (which have exhaust limitations). Well done!
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Is that true? We (in the Netherlands) have an average and median age of 87 and a bit. Is it really that much of a difference?
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"rip up the nation's fuel efficiency standards"
How is that going to help export more cars to e.g. Europe? Oh, I forgot about the extortion with tariffs thing.
How is that going to help export more cars to e.g. Europe? Oh, I forgot about the extortion with tariffs thing.
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With cars sold from dealerships painted with Trump branded leaded paint!
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