Move marks president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and support for cleaner-running vehicles
Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards, significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.
It marks the US president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and federal support for cleaner-running vehicles and renewable energy. Burning gasoline is a significant contributor to global heating and transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
“We are officially terminating Joe Biden’s ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually, Cafe standards that imposed expensive restrictions,” Trump said in an Oval Office announcement, flanked by top auto executives including the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis. “It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices, combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate.”
Trumps got to keep those angry older white guys driving lifted blacked out trucks with a sticker of a little kid peeing on something happy.
So the plan is to sell inbred rednecks thirstier trucks, while gasoline demand is decreasing and will become a niche product in a decade.
Enjoy your $300 fillups boys.
“I want to destroy the world quicker because think of all the shareholder value we can create along the way”
Its really fucked up man. I’m not a communist at all but I start to understand why people would want to go the complete opposite way of this system.
Its basically “I don’t give a fuck how many people die or even if we destroy the entire world in the process I just want to generate more money for the people at the ‘top’” and its really sad.
There’s absolutely no reason to do this, other than generate more money at the expense of the citizens and the entire planet.
Fuel efficiency—the measurement for getting more mileage out of the same amount of gasoline. Congratulations, MAGA voters, you played yourself! When you pick up that new pile of trash made by Ford or Stellantis (and I know you will because they’re AMERICAN* cars), I hope you enjoy the higher gas expenses that you voted for.
* With the extra irony being that many of those “American” brands are owned by Stellantis, which isn’t even headquartered anywhere in North America.
They already played themselves by picking the ‘American’ vehicles. They are all trash and hard to work on.
The Japanese ones are really the only ones built for longevity and ease of maintenance.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
But Genocide Joe or some shit
No candidate is owed your vote, no matter what, no matter who the opposition is. Earn the vote. Dems did this just as much as trump is doing it.
You owed yourself and your future not to do such a moronic thing as what you implied you actually did. Great job. I’m sure future generations will understand.
Biden: Puts in fuel efficiency standards.
You: Nope.
I mean there is literally no other way to describe the sitaution.
This isn’t about Biden, it’s about the Dems giving us shitty candidates that no one likes and expecting us to just suck it up. They shafted Bernie, and they’ll shaft any other true progressive dem for another neolib shill. That doesn’t change if people continue voting for them. End of discussion.
While Harris didn’t explicitly say it, it was obvious she would continue on climate issues.
And are you even reading what the article is about? Because it seems like you’re avoiding it. The article is literally about the fuel efficiency standards that Biden put in, and you are dead set on ignoring that. So I guess it bears repeating: Trump repealing Biden’s fuel efficiency standards is what you voted for.
Again, not even talking about the article. The comment is blaming the people who refused to vote for a shit candidate, and you all completely refuse to see the faults of your party. Sure they’re better than Republicans, but not by much. Neither party gives a shit about you. This isn’t the fault of non voters, it’s the fault of the system that’s currently in place and it doesn’t matter whose in charge, if the rich want it, they’re gonna get it. Trump wouldn’t be doing this if it didn’t benefit his backers. Same way the Dems would.
Nobody who is saying that to you is refusing to see the faults in Democrats. That’s not what’s happening.
This isn’t the fault of non voters
Yes it is. I hope the consequences of your actions hurt you more than the average person which you also hurt.
Same energy as that guy getting mad at costco for sueing the trump admin.
Not even in the slightest. Fuck Trump, but fuck the Dems for doing absolutely nothing and expecting everyone’s vote. Every election is the same since Obama
If you think every election has just been the same “since Obama”, then I’m afraid you’ve got a narrow view of history. Shit choices in this deeply fucked up country have been part of the electoral system from the start. People have always lamented that neither party gives them a good choice
Not participating hasn’t worked to make things better, though. In fact, those in power try to get people not to participate as much as possible. Politicians go after reliable voting blocks, not people who wilt when faced with a morally complex choice. When the Left doesn’t show up, they go to the right: because xenophobic assholes sure as hell vote.
And yes: this is all why I agree that electoral politics is terrible. We need direct action, parallel power structures, etc. We need better voting systems and representation, and there are problems so systemic that we need to go beyond reform.
TLDR: Voting isn’t going to save us, but not voting may doom us.
So Obama put these in place, Trump undid them. Biden puts similar in place, Trump undoes them. There sure seems to a lot of undoing for nothing ever being done. There are a lot of shitty Democrats, the U.S. leans far right, but “democrats do nothing” is the shield Trumpers hide behind every day.
Yeah, but car makers will still adhere to the intentional standard, since the intentional market is what they can profit from the most
Depends. I don’t think we are exporting a whole lot of SUVs and pickups…especially big body-on-frame SUVs.
CAFE standards already killed the small/midsize car market. Automakers have all their chips in the SUV/CUV segment, because they are in the same category as giant trucks, and thus they improve the average fuel economy.
That, combined with the fact that Trump doesn’t do anything for the heck of it. Somebody is gaining (or at least planning to gain) from this (besides him)…makes me think that this will have significant negative impacts for the environment.
I’m not sure there are many body on frame SUVs left.
And the “same category as trucks” has more to do with safety standards. Fuel economy has to do with wheelbase; the way the math works out, it’s easier to build a less fuel efficient massive vehicle than a more fuel efficient small one.
This is for the average across the fleet.
Unfortunately, the EU is about to partly cave on that* for lesser tariffs. I can’t believe this is happening.
* at least security in SUVs; not sure about emissions. Hopefully not, but the agreement does not specify.
National standards might change, but I’m betting California and some other states will still hold car manufacturers to a higher standard.
Just tax fuel more and let math do the work. Europeans are shifting to EVs because environment? It’s because gasoline is $7.50 a gallon and they can do math.
Reasonable, but this shit still fucking pisses me off
Just another horrible thing in a long line of horrible things both Trump admins have done. Wrt climate action, leaving the Paris Agreement was the big one. After that, this - perversely - feels like par for the course.
Cafe standards
Not familiar with that turn of phrase … oh, it’s another acronym: CAFE
