In doing so?
They are giving the Trump admin the middle finger on their efforts to loosen gas millage improvements…..
The Auto companies cut the deal in secret from the Trump admin , which works at slighting California any chance they can get….The Obama admin had set standard ‘s that the Trump people wanted changed…The deal brings the Obama standards back …..
Cars from the group will be averaging up to 50 miles per gallon in 7 years….
Other car manufactures are bound to join the deal, thus allowing their vehicles to be sold in California and every other state….
Four automakers from three continents have struck a deal with California to produce more fuel-efficient cars for their U.S. fleets in coming years, undercutting one of the Trump administration’s most aggressive climate policy rollbacks.
The compromise between the California Air Resources Board and Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW of North America came after weeks of secret negotiations and could shape future U.S. vehicle production, even as White House officials aim to relax gas mileage standards for the nation’s cars, pickup trucks and SUVs.
Mary D. Nichols, California’s top air pollution regulator, said in an interview Wednesday that she sees the agreement as a potential “olive branch” to the Trump administration and hopes it joins the deal, which she said gives automakers flexibility in meeting emissions goals without the “massive backsliding” contained in the White House proposal.
“What we have here is a statement of principles intended to reach out to the federal government to move them off the track that they seem to be on and onto a more constructive track,” Nichols said, adding that the companies approached California officials last month about a potential compromise.
In a joint statement, the four automakers said their decision to hash out a deal with California was driven by a need for predictability, as well as a desire to reduce compliance costs, keep vehicles affordable for customers and be good environmental stewards….
Trump’s knee jerk reaction to fuel efficiency and basically any other attempts at conservation is shared by most Republicans these days.
It makes no business sense, just a way to stick it to us “libruls”
Yeah why in the world would any rational person oppose something lied that?
Just knee jerk,”well them libruls are for it so I’m agin it.”
Apparently on FOX News and right wing radio biodegradable paper straws are the new boogeyman. So the Trump campaign is selling plastic disposable ones with his name on it for $15 for pack of ten.
That’s right–a buck fifty for one single use straw
That’ll show them tree huggers!
Idiocy.
“DIG MORE COAL !!” — once a slogan in Wartime Britain — is one of the Cult’s chants (as if China or Australia under her re-elected anti-environmental government won’t dig a lot more).
Oil,gas, coal and other hydrocarbon industries are the former victims and future saviours of America in their view; and derogating from the Paris accords a huge victory in the struggle to Make America Great Again.
All I can say is that, thanks to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), San Francisco Bay had vastly clearer, cleaner air when I left the Bay Area in the 1990’s than it did when I arrived in 1966. If you can’t see the Golden Gate Bridge today, you’re looking through the Bay’s famous fog, not through the smog or smaze that depressed your spirits and irritated your pipes.
i’ll report on what Trump counters against this,…