EPA Turns Down CA on emissions petition

Do you expect anything better when we have guys like Bill Wehrum running the Air division? Previously we had the famed Jeffrey Holmstead.. I'm thinking they may just cut to the chase and just turn over the EPA to be run as a division of Exxon/Mobile.

 

NPR said this AM that the Governator will sue the EPA for not allowing CA to set higher vehicle emission standards than the feds. 17 other states want to adopt the same strict CA vehicle emission standards. Bush admin stated they want across the board emission standards so car makers wouldn't have to build different cars for different markets.

Well, it does make sense in a way, but...the question is why are the feds are not making stricter vehicle emission standards? I've always wondered why the right thing to do is so hard. Make the damn PZEV cars for everyone! Is it really a $$$ profit issue? Can we not justify cleaner air with modern technology even if it costs x amount more? When do we as a species reallize pollution not good? when do we associate the health costs of NOT trying to reduce pollution to the cost of healthy, clean air?

More questions than answers, but, I am really tired of the whole make a short-term profit without considering long-term effects.

No environment, no profits. Know the environment, know long-term success profits.

 

Yes. That's precisely the problem. SUV's have the best profit margin, hence the auto mfgs push them relentless in their marketing. This is a case where gov't regulation via mandates or taxes is necessary because the market won't fix these sorts of problems (seat belts would be another good example).

 

Yet he opposes having a global standard and prefers each country to set its own. Doublespeak?

 

I heard today that Washington State and others are joining California in a suit to keep the tougher standards.

http://www.komotv.com/news/local/12676937.html

 

The EPA are a bunch of muppets put there by a pox bottle.

 

In the Los Angeles Times:

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