Trump’s Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray

MTAtech said:

Trump’s Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray - The New York Times

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One has to conclude that the only motivation for rolling back these regulations is spite — he just has a boner for everything Obama did.

The industry itself is saying that they think it is in their interest to keep the regulations and the Trump Administration is telling them they know better. Of course, we won’t hear a peep from conservatives who would jump on Obama under the same circumstances.

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Yup, that and he is catering to the rich greedy assholes that really run this country, like owning 90% of all the wealth is not enough, undo all the regulations, give them billions in tax breaks, let them take the rest of the wealth

SouthernDemocrat said:

That was exactly your ridiculous logic:

"Then don't ditch the requirements. Does this rollback force them to make less efficient cars?"

That is what you argued, in several posts actually. So why then have any environmental or safety regulations on vehicles if automakers can simply choose to build cleaner and safer vehicles absent any regulations?

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A "rollback" to what the emissions standards will be next year, is in no way analogous to eliminating regulations altogether.

Come on, think.

Taylor said:

A "rollback" to what the emissions standards will be next year, is in no way analogous to eliminating regulations altogether.

Come on, think.

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And that is the same stupid logic that is employed with all emissions standards. We had emissions standards in the early 70s, why not just roll back to those then? I mean that is not eliminating them altogether.

Environmental protection 101: As population densities and economic activity increases, environmental protections must increase proportionately just to maintain the same level of air and water quality, and human health protections.

For example, if there were only a few hundred people in America, we could all burn tires for warmth and our environmental impacts would be minimal, with 320 million people, it is a different story.

SouthernDemocrat said:

And that is the same stupid logic that is employed with all emissions standards. We had emissions standards in the early 70s, why not just roll back to those then? I mean that is not eliminating them altogether.

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Again, that is your stupid logic, not mine.

SouthernDemocrat said:

Environmental protection 101: As population densities and economic activity increases, environmental protections must increase proportionately just to maintain the same level of air and water quality, and human health protections.

For example, if there were only a few hundred people in America, we could all burn tires for warmth and our environmental impacts would be minimal, with 320 million people, it is a different story.

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Do you have evidence that we will not maintain our air and water quality and human health protections if we freeze the standards at 2020 levels through 2026?