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EPA Is Legislating Again!

EPA Finalizes Rules to Decimate US Trucking Industry and Send Consumer Goods Prices Soaring

On Tuesday, December 20, crazed EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the final national clean air standards to cut smog- and soot-forming emissions from heavy-duty trucks.


The new standards will slash dangerous pollution from semi-trucks.

The EPA insists the new rules will protect public health, especially the health of vulnerable populations in underserved, overburdened communities.

This is pure leftist insanity and will force underserved, overburdened communities to pay more for their food and consumer goods.

These people are dangerous and insane.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday that will impose stricter nitrogen dioxide emissions standards on new heavy-duty trucks, a move that will substantially hike operating costs for truckers, experts and industry representatives told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The EPA’srule, which is more than 80% stricter than the previous regulation, will require large trucks, delivery vans and buses manufactured after 2027 to cut nitrogen dioxide emissions by nearly 50% by 2045, according to an agencypress release. The agency’s rule is intended to push truckers to phase out diesel-powered vehicles and use electric vehicles (EV) instead; however, the compliance costs associated with such rules could suffocate an industry that is not ready to transition to EVs, experts told the DCNF.

“It’s an overreach that is indicative of this administration’s tendency to set aside balance to achieve the goals of activists that they are politically aligned with,” Mandy Gunasekara, a senior policy analyst for the Independent Women’s Forum and former EPA Chief of Staff during the Trump administration, told the DCNF. “It’s going to squeeze out the mid-sized and smaller trucking companies because they’re not going to be able to afford to purchase the new, extremely expensive equipment required to continue to do what they do.”
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Rizzle420 · M
@Honko idk... sounds like some Kool-Aid to me... I'm no communist but to suggest that capitalism is the perfect system is ludicrous
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graphite · 61-69, M
Democrats and their environmental fanaticism. Of course, environmental fanaticism is just a cloak for Marxism. "Save the environment!" by handcuffing the economy. And, of course, Big $$ companies (Democrat donors) get to eliminate small competitors through regulations that the big companies can follow but the small ones can't.
@graphite There is the legend of the boy who cried, “Wolf!” It could happen…
Rizzle420 · M
@graphite do you really think that the Republicans get less in corporate donations than Democrats do?! Republicans have been in the pockets of big business since the 19th century
graphite · 61-69, M
@Rizzle420 Democrats are the Party of the Mega-Rich and corporations these days. The list of Democrat billionaires is long. And of course, the multibillion-dollar Big Tech corporations all serve the Democrat Party. Google, Facebook, (formerly) Twitter, etc.

https://jacobin.com/2022/02/dems-gop-super-pacs-pelosi-bloomberg-warren

https://www.protocol.com/tech-political-donors-2020-amazon-apple-facebook-google-microsoft
4meAndyou · F
[quote]The EPA insists the new rules will protect public health, especially the health of vulnerable populations in underserved, overburdened communities.[/quote]

This ignorant a-hole is going to cause prices at the grocery stores to become astronomically high. "Vulnerable" communities, with which he pretends to be so concerned, will starve and or/ suffer from malnutrition because of his stupid a-hole "idea".

As anyone with 1/4 of a brain knows, we are having problems with electric vehicle batteries replacement and recycling, with the batteries exploding, with using electric vehicles in extremely cold weather, and with the time it takes to fully charge an electric vehicle of that size...buses and trucks are not that different. It's going to take 24 to 48 hours to charge them, after they drive about 600 miles.
Rizzle420 · M
CEOs of S&P 1500 companies tend to donate more money to Republicans during election cycles than to Democrats, but the extent to which that trend holds true varies by industry and where a company is headquartered, a new study found.

The energy industry — oil, natural gas, and coal extraction and products — had the strongest pro-Republican tilt among CEO contributions, according to the study by professors at Harvard Law School and Tel-Aviv University.

The professors reviewed U.S. Federal Election Commission records of political contributions by more than 3,500 individuals who served as CEOs of S&P 1500 companies between 2000 and 2017. The study examined donations made by CEOs to authorized candidate committees; party committees; and leadership political action committees, or PACs, as if they were made to candidates of the affiliated party. For CEO donations to political committees that were not clearly linked to a political party or candidate of that party, the study attributed the donations to Republicans and Democrats in proportion to how the committee at issue allocated its total spending between support for each group.

According to the report, the CEOs donated approximately twice as much to Republicans as to Democrats — about $123 million versus $61 million — over the 18-year review period.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Rizzle420 [quote]According to the report, the CEOs donated approximately twice as much to Republicans as to Democrats [/quote]

Did the report include anything related to the topic of this post?
Rizzle420 · M
@Budwick it was a response to somebody making the ridiculous claim that Democrats are more in the pockets of corporate America than Republicans
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Rizzle420
#1 - I might take issue with your claim.

#2 - You can delete, edit, move comments to reduce misunderstanding.
Bureaucrats are equally if not more dangerous to this nation than politicians.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
Your government hard at work.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP
I'm willing to pay more to protect the environment. The U.S. should invest massively in public transit and modern high-speed trains. We need to join the rest of the developed world. We are way behind in good public transit compared to Europe and Asia.
Confined · 56-60, M
@badminton i have yet to find one that has zero govt funding.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@badminton [quote]statements by NASA, the EPA, Caltech and The Royal Society all affirming irrefutable evidence[/quote]

Science has discovered a way to make gold from climate change narratives.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Budwick Any scientist or researcher would make [b]much[/b] more money being a shill for the fossil fuel industry denying climate change.
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
Why aren’t liberals banning cars?
Rizzle420 · M
Well we know that if we leave it up to these companies they won't give two shits about anything but their own profit certainly not the environment or their employees so they have to be regulated because we know it's human nature to be corrupt and greedy

 
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