Speaking of things that founders didn’t foresee...

Fuck ‘Real America’. I grew up there, it continues to exist largely because of massive federal wealth redistribution programs that take tax money from the coastal (and a couple mid-western) states and distributes it to ‘Real America’.

Except Trump has also threatened CA’s right to have their own rules on emissions. He and the GOP talk states rights all the time, yet, where auto and marijuana laws are concerned, they want to take those rights away.

Oh look, another moron who thinks gov’t should be run exactly the same as a business. Please GTFO with that shit.

You’ve eaten your Faux News cheerios every day like a good boy!

The EPA isn’t made up of regular Americans?

They more than likely wouldn’t make a completely new engine. Chances are they would modify an existing engine, and do something along the lines of using cheaper materials/build processes, and leave out whole systems all together.

I’ve never understood this arguement, want know why? Lets use a coal plant as an example, they are told to clean up their emissions, probably by installing a scrubber system in the exhaust. Well someone has to design and build that scrubber (jobs created) someone has to install those scrubbers (jobs created) and…

I hope you are right about this only being a temporary lack of effectiveness. The backward leaps we are taking as a country when we need to be making forward strides are mind-boggingly short-sighted and ignorant.

Want better gas mileage at ~$2/gal? Not so much. But when (not if) it jumps back up to $4/gal or more, sure.

But since it is a cause of asthma (asthmatic here, whose aunt died of asthma on a smog day in LA 21 years ago), more pollution will cause more asthma.

Anti-vax is a bipartisan wingnut thing as far as I can tell. On the Dumb-Dumb Left you have all the crunchy granola hippies and on the Dumb-Dumb Right you have the “muh freedumbs/muh libber-tea’s” crowd.

It’s more complex than that. By relaxing federal standards, car companies will be able to sell more profitable vehicles outside the CARB umbrella. They will still sell and develop cars to CARB standards, but they won’t be as restricted in other regions. For federal standards, you literally can’t sell cars at some…

That’s what I’m wondering.

You can be assured that if they were allowed to sell cars without catalytic converters for the next 4 years, they would gladly do so.

Right along side kids with MMR since our regime is anti-vax too.

This is the key. The backlash against Twittler will be HUGE in 2020. Only businesses with their heads up their asses* would consider making wholesale changes that stand a very good chance of being reversed in a few short years.

That’s my first thought.

Cannot wait to see asthma rates in the country rise at an accelerated rate.

Honest question, does the US auto industry need saving? I mean it seems like things are going pretty well for them right now.