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.”
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.
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.