DOT, EPA announce ‘one, and only one’
national fuel standard, hit California
Washington Examiner,
by
Paul Bedard
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/19/2019 8:57:40 AM
The Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency Thursday announced that there will be “one, and only one” national fuel standard, a move made to cut the costs of vehicles and bar California from making stricter standards.
In a release and in a briefing today, the department said, “This action will help ensure that there will be one, and only one, set of national fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles.”
The department, in the release shared in advance with Secrets, also took a shot at California which will lose its waiver to require different fuel standards, a model followed by a dozen other states.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
harleynyc 9/19/2019 9:03:12 AM (No. 183956)
The Tabernacle Choir - Hallelujah !
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About time...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Wendybird 9/19/2019 9:30:41 AM (No. 184012)
What? Making things simpler, more efficient and cheaper. Thanks again, DJT. But what will happen to the bureaucrat rule makers? Will they have to look for a real job?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/19/2019 9:32:23 AM (No. 184017)
I never thought that emission standards was the problem in California. The problem was always greed, avarice, demagoguery and Democrats.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Right Time 9/19/2019 9:33:29 AM (No. 184019)
I fully expect Newsom to ignore this announcement, just as he has ignored immigration law and allowed illegals to vote for him and allowed ballot harvesting. California thinks they are an independent nation when they want to, but are happy to take federal money
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fayebeck 9/19/2019 9:37:55 AM (No. 184026)
#5 you are correct. First the courts. Then no matter it will be ignored. Then another court thing. No matter it will still be ignored and there is no will to enforce the Trump edict and that's that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/19/2019 10:06:08 AM (No. 184058)
Look at it this way. If California's legislature voted to relabel crayons using hexadecimal codes rather than names, how many people would support that? Our nation's energy policy has pretty much been directed by California for most of the past fifty years. It's high time that an end is put to this nonsense. Fuel economy standards are fully within the purview of the federal government by the Commerce Clause. I congratulate President Trump on making this wise decision.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 9/19/2019 10:30:46 AM (No. 184079)
And ELIMINATE any federal regulation of fuel economy of autos and trucks. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, get out of it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/19/2019 10:39:43 AM (No. 184090)
This is 50 years overdue. The auto companies should not be required to build special cars for Ca. and the other leftist states bastions. Governor Newsom just got a message the Trump is President, and not Newsom, a juvenile deqlinquent.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 9/19/2019 10:47:20 AM (No. 184098)
Funny thing about their higher fuel efficiency standard, just a short while ago, CA was complaining that they were not making enough gas-tax revenue because the vehicles were getting too good of mileage, and people weren't filling up as much. Plus, the electric vehicles don't pay ANY gas tax, and they were looking to install a tax on electric vehicles (after all, they too use the same roads).
So, the fuel efficiency being as high as it already is, and was expected to rise to, was not really a good thing from a revenue stream standpoint, and California legislature was looking to enact a mileage tax to ensure a much more steady stream of revenues for Sacramento.
It's doubtful any higher mileage efficiency will improve CA air any more than it is today.
Plus, I don't believe many, if any, of the state vehicles are electric, thus, they don't even follow their own dictates.
What Trump admin should next work on is finding 3 fuel formula instead of the current 27-ish today.
The CA fuel standard could be from the Mississippi River to the Coast, then use the Mason-Dixon line to divide the other 2 fuel types.
This would ensure more opportunity for refining capacity and greater efficiencies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 9/19/2019 11:01:15 AM (No. 184114)
California will still enact a mileage tax. SF and LA will enact a rush hour tax like London has. Why? It is the citizen's moral and ethical obligation to ensure beaurocrats enrich themselves in today's modern government.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jacksin5 9/19/2019 11:45:44 AM (No. 184168)
What can Newsom do about this? Absolutely nothing except refuse to have fuel sold in California. The oil companies, not longer being held up by the politicos is Sacramento, will be more than willing to strictly adhere to Federal Standards and tell Newsom to take it or leave it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 9/19/2019 11:54:14 AM (No. 184177)
One of the first things I would like to see disappear is that infernal 'stop/start' (S/S) crapola on all newer cars. It is supposed to improve gas mileage by a percent or two. That may happen if one's driving is mostly local, but if you are a long haul driver with few stops between source and destination, 'stop/start' is worthless. And as your car ages and the engine doesn't start as easily as it did when new, S/S now becomes dangerous. How many owners of older S/S cars will get rear-ended before the lawsuits against GM, Ford, et al start?
If you do the total cost of ownership (TCO) math using the 2% improvement in mileage, the number of gallons of fuel you buy, the number of miles you drive, and include the nearly $1,000.00 price increase on your new car's sticker due to the S/S equipment upgrade, one is looking a decades before you break even.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/19/2019 12:31:10 PM (No. 184203)
Most of this board's readers and respondents generally recognize that the USA is a republic with the Constitution describing a compact of states and the Federal government being limited to 'enumerated' powers. So why can't individual states set their own pollution standards?
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