Cars...
I love how in the EPA vs. Massachusetts court case before the Supreme Court at the moment, about whether the EPA should be regulating the auto and power generation industry more, the main argument from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is…
“We're talking about carbon dioxide, it's necessary for life. A pollutant is something that fouls the air, a contaminant. No EPA administrator in history has ever considered carbon dioxide a pollutant."
PLEASE!!!!!!! If the Supreme Court judges have anything beyond a grade school science education they should know how weak that answer is.
Why can’t the industry and Republicans just look beyond their greed for a minute and do something like create minimum MPG requirements for new vehicles? I was reading today that “…driving a [Toyota] Prius from Anchorage to Miami would emit fewer pollutants than expending a can of air freshener.”. You can buy a Prius for $22,000, and it gets 55MPG. Why aren’t they building more cars like that? And why are people still buying SUV’s?
I just worked out (yay for Excel) that compared to the average car (20.2 MPG over 13,975 miles a year, thank you EPA!), a 55 MPG vehicle would save you $5,500 in gas costs over 5 years if gas is $2.50 a gallon. If gas gets up to $3 gallon, it would save $6,600.
Over ten years that’s half the value of the car in saved petrol costs.
“We're talking about carbon dioxide, it's necessary for life. A pollutant is something that fouls the air, a contaminant. No EPA administrator in history has ever considered carbon dioxide a pollutant."
PLEASE!!!!!!! If the Supreme Court judges have anything beyond a grade school science education they should know how weak that answer is.
Why can’t the industry and Republicans just look beyond their greed for a minute and do something like create minimum MPG requirements for new vehicles? I was reading today that “…driving a [Toyota] Prius from Anchorage to Miami would emit fewer pollutants than expending a can of air freshener.”. You can buy a Prius for $22,000, and it gets 55MPG. Why aren’t they building more cars like that? And why are people still buying SUV’s?
I just worked out (yay for Excel) that compared to the average car (20.2 MPG over 13,975 miles a year, thank you EPA!), a 55 MPG vehicle would save you $5,500 in gas costs over 5 years if gas is $2.50 a gallon. If gas gets up to $3 gallon, it would save $6,600.
Over ten years that’s half the value of the car in saved petrol costs.