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Rolling back way more than just what Biden accomplished. Or Obama.
Things to know about the Trump administration order on miles per gallon for cars and pickups
https://www.yahoo.com/news/things-know-trump-administration-order-173404507.html
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Duffy says eliminating the rules will increase Americans' access to the full range of gasoline vehicles they need and can afford.
Others disagree. This will raise consumers costs at the pump, increase tailpipe pollution and jeopardize U.S. automakers future, and no one voted for any of it. The only beneficiaries will be oil executives and Chinas auto industry, which will be happy to sell electric vehicles around the world with little U.S. competition, said Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversitys Safe Climate Transport Campaign.
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Deuxcents
(20,644 posts)All our accomplishments to move forward are being reversed. The r after their name should be changed to the reverse party as theyve even abandoned their republican values they used to claim
LuvLoogie
(7,690 posts)That is why they are sabotaging the science.
These. People. Aren't. Stupid.
It's their voters that are too stupid or too racist to care about the damage inflicted.
Edited to add: The ones who sit it out may be the stupidest of all, either from ignorance or narcissism
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House of Roberts
(5,825 posts)From what to what? From miles per gallons to gallons per mile?
I don't think the manufacturers will throw away all that research that improved power without sacrificing economy all these years.
Liberal In Texas
(14,814 posts)They want to be able to continue without much in the way of interruptions.
House of Roberts
(5,825 posts)overrules every attempt to return to higher standards. We could be stuck with these courts a lot longer than Trump, and nothing would recover for the foreseeable future.
Mountainguy
(1,264 posts)They are well aware that this is a short term thing. The standards will be back in a few years
Jerry2144
(2,678 posts)If they wont develop efficient, non-polluting cars, then they wont be able to sell elsewhere. Sue, they might sell up to 1 million in the US, but would give up 20 times or more of they cant meet