No. If they were merely enforcing their own regs, the manufacturers would just pull non-compliant models or offer hybrid variants for those states. The rest of the country could continue as normal.

So instead of teaching poor people to own an asset that allows them to earn money, you think it wise to teach them to pay tax to a system that will (at various times) be rendered ineffective by bureaucratic incompetence and public sector union wage disputes?

The states can do whatever they want, particularly with fuel taxes. They are attempting to sue legislative and executive power away from Congress and the White House. They are empowered by a constituency who has no concept of federalism nor CAFE 2025.

Most of the people fighting for CAFE 2025 have no idea how strict the regulation is nor how strongly it will affect price and vehicle equipment. We barely emerged from CAFE 2016, which was child’s play by comparison. The next 8 years, particularly 2022-2025 will upend the car business.

Correct, and in this instance, CAFE 2025 is completely intolerant of offroad vehicles, Mid-size BOF SUV’s (Tahoe, etc), and affordable fullsize family sedans. Some states need these vehicles, and 13 states should not sue for stricter regulations, particularly when they can affect gasoline demand with fuel taxes in…

Are you really unaware that CAFE now mandates how large the cars footprint should be relative to mpg? Therefore, if you are building a 23mpg Toyota 4Runner, it must be the same size as a fullsize pickup by 2025? The only way to get out of this arrangement is to buy indulgences in the form of specialized credits and…

Excise tax is a bad way to fund roads for the reason you pointed out. If someone doesn’t use gasoline or diesel, they don’t pay it.

“Small” gasoline tax? Do you have any idea how much higher $.50 is than our current federal tax on gasoline and diesel? Furthermore, when you raise federal gasoline tax, it crowds out state funding by reducing demand, which merely puts state funds in a bad place.

It’s not about the engine. It’s about whether or not they will have to include weak hybrid or strong hybrid systems. These will be mandatory if the augural portion of CAFE 2025 stays in tact.

Only one side is pushing policy. The agnostic “let people decide” political complex is not religiously fundamental. This threat is nothing more than protecting Obama’s political turf, even if it costs jobs and it wrecks certain vehicle segments, like fullsize family sedans and midsize/compact offroad vehicles. In…

Go ahead. Executive branch will eliminate the fines.

Germans are the killjoys of the free world.

Neutral: Tesla is doing it right. The packaging and optioning of vehicles is nothing more than an elaborate bundling scam to create artificial value propositions that consumers pay for by way of manufacturing inefficiency. You could even argue that some models are nothing more than superfluous waste designed to create…

I’m no military expert, but the attempts to retire the A-10 seem like a conspiracy cooked up by defense contractors who want to sell something new.

Virtually every developed country with any inkling of hostility towards the US is constantly parsing our public and private security systems, that includes many of our allies.

All controls should be manual. It would make the bloated cars of today impossible. No one can drive a 4,000 lb M5 with 5oohp and 12" wide tires, unless they have power assistance.

It’s amazing how blind the average Hillary supporter is. Does Popovich know how to use the internet yet? Was he able to read wikileaks?

Democrats have always been the racists. We can’t live in a colorless society because Democrats still aren’t ready for it yet. They haven’t figured out how to incorporate it into their religion of political correctness.

The post is well written, but it’s also wide of the mark. Chinese labor is not that cheap, and the Chinese economy is already starting to shed some of its unskilled labor jobs.