White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030::The plan faced opposition from OEMs, car dealers, and the United Auto Workers.
This always ends up happening lmao
Biden is not Trump, but he’s also not our friend. Even if the Democrats keep the GOP and Project 2025 at bay, there is still cause for mischief.
Biden is, though, very much the lesser of 2 evils.
The people throwing up their hands and refusing to vote simply make it easier for the greater evil to seize power.
Oh yes. By far.
Voting for public offices has become an absolute must: A vote for any GOP candidate is a vote in favor of one-party autocracy and the end of democratic (lower case) features in the US. A vote against the GOP candidate (by voting for the next popular guy, typically the Democrat – uppercase) is a vote to slow down US progress towards this one-party autocracy.
No matter who you are, you’re not going to like one-party autocracy. Here in the states, we established that when we chased off the Brits and established out own constitution. We can also point to countless other examples in which it’s shit. (Iran is providing lots of current instances).
Yes, we want progressive policies. Heck, I want massive reform and in some cases radical abolition of current establishment systems. We’re not going to get those just by voting. Nor are we going to get them simply with violent revolution. We have to actually try again and develop new systems, and then get them ratified by everyone, and all that time autocratic power is going to be tempting whoever has military power.
(The French Revolution, for example, started in 1789, but had to be reconsidered and revisited for nearly a century, with the occasional decade of uneventful constitutional monarchy before the regents started rolling back civil rights, and the guillotines were rolled out yet again. The third republic was established in 1870, and France became secular – established freedom of religion – in 1905. Revolution is long and bloody.)
Support your local mutual aid organizations. Help out when you can. If the federal government shuts down, check in on federal employees and help out as you can if they get in a jam. Don’t cross picket lines, and check in with striking laborers. All this helps the resistance last longer than the autocratic movements until they ouroboros themselves through their own internal corruption.
That’s where we are in the States.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It appears as if ambitious new fuel efficiency regulations that would require Americans to adopt many more electric vehicles are to be watered down.
But opposition to the new CAFE standards has been fierce, and now Reuters reports that the White House is backing down and will issue new guidelines with less ambitious goals in the coming weeks.
In fact, the current rules create a perverse incentive to make inefficient gasoline-powered vehicles, since the OEMs know these can easily be offset.
But the Alliance for Automotive Innovation—a lobby group for the auto industry—called the rules “neither reasonable nor achievable” despite claiming not to oppose greenhouse gas emissions standards.
And the United Auto Workers—which endorsed President Biden’s re-election—has claimed the fuel economy regulations would threaten jobs.
In addition to the tougher new fuel economy standards, the auto industry also wants to see the government relax attempts to regulate particulate pollution from gasoline-powered vehicles more strictly.
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Have you noticed how since the implication of stringer file efficiency on automakers cars have been getting larger and heavier?
Here is an interesting video that shows how automakers have been working around fuel efficiency standards for some time now. It also highlights how automakers have chosen to ignore these rules/regulations and instead put pedestrian lives at risk indirectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh4H9qZ-_6Y
IMO file efficiency standards should still remain in place, but a rework of the policies is needed.
Also, unrelated, but this seems to be a problem no one is noticing. Most “arterial roads” in cities and surrounding areas are for the lack of a better word “disappearing”.
Arterial roads are two lane roads in both directions, they have no driveways in/off them and no traffic lights/signals. They allow higher speed travel compared to city streets, or a suburban street, but are slower then a hwy thought the concept is similar.
Most of these higher speed roads are being turned into “strodes” that are neither a street nor a road. This means multiple traffic lights and intersections, as well as driveways on/off the road (similar to a suburban street with driveways on the left/right).
This IMO increases the amount of time you may spend in your car driving from one side of a city to another, thus increasing fuel consumption while idling at lights. It also means more “conflict areas” between the users of the “stroad”, such as pedestrians/specialists/transit.
What we need is a complete reclassification of our roadways, as I guarantee if you thing of a street or a road or a avenue they may all look the same in our minds.
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Trying to force a switch to pure EVs before the technology is actually mature and viable is one thing, but simply cracking down on absolutely monstrous SUVs/trucks could do a lot of good to bridge the gap in the meantime. Not everyone needs a freakin MRAP to drive around a suburb. Just bringing cars back could help immensely.
Biden keeps finding new reasons for me to stay home election day
You vote for Democrats to keep the Republicans from turning the US into an ideological autocracy and stepping up the genocide schedule.
Changing the state of the nation for the better requires activism at different fronts.
We’re at the Secret Hitler endgame, and the fascists are winning.
All the women who die of ectopic pregnancies in red states will be your fault.
So if we reelect Biden, that won’t happen? Doesn’t that mean he can stop that from happening now since he is currently president?
Were you only in the fight because you thought winning would be easy?
We need to not abandon vulnerable leftists just because we don’t like liberals, because the alternative you have is worse and pretending otherwise is spitting in the face of a lot of people who won’t have the luxary of taking off their denims and patches.
Sure. Whenever Biden is criticized for lack of action and weak-ass attempts at making anything better, we’re told “the president isn’t a king and he actually doesn’t have much power to do anything so you can’t criticize him!” Whenever someone talks about voting third party it’s “you’re scum that supports facism. Voting third party is the same as voting Republican. If Trump gets reelected, he’ll single handedly destroy the country and take away our freedoms and it’ll be all your fault.”
This is horseshit and neither party deserves to be in power in this country as neither one has done a god damned thing but milk us for our labor and wealth and keep us fed with bullshit to bicker over with each other.
The reason why Trump got elected, the supreme court got a 6-3 conservative majority, and things like Roe v Wade were overturned is because of people like Clinton and the Democratic leadership being so shitty that a reality TV host and known conman seemed more appealing to enough of the population. Continuing to vote the same way every election and expecting anything to change is absolutely insane.
With the Republican party being so vile, the only thing Democratic politicians need to do to keep your vote is just be marginally less evil and use the proper buzzwords and terminology to make you think they’re on your side. They have absolutely zero incentive to rock the boat and actually fix anything because that might mean they can’t retain power over at least 50% of the government at any given time.
One side is milquetoast liberals and the other is christofascists who will be gunning trans people and their allies down in the street like rabid dogs.
I’m sorry you find it such a difficult choice.
Milquetoast liberals mean nothing will ever get better for trans people regardless of the side that wins and continuing to vote for either one of these parties just ensures both of them retain power and things stay the same for yet another election cycle. People are gunning down trans people and their allies in the streets right now. If Biden winning in 2020 didn’t stop it, how does him winning in 2024 stop it?
It has gotten better for trans people.
Even 15 years ago teenagers in the west coast of all places would be told by their loved ones that if they were trans they would be cursing themselves to a life of prostitution.
I like to think about how far the trans community has gone and I don’t want to see them go back to square one because you are having a temper tantrum.
neither party deserves to be in power in
However one of them will be no matter if you like it or not.
The question is: are you willing to prevent the greater evil from seizing power by not voting against the much worse option?
If they will no matter what, then we citizens don’t actually hold any power in elections, and things will continue on this path forever. Picking “evil” over “greater evil” doesn’t accomplish anything but maintaining the status quo.
Given the reality that the current system exists, those are the available options.
It’s the exact sentiment that got Trump elected the first time. I guess of they’re only staying home this time the fall of our democracy and the thousands of dead queer people will be their fault. Is that better? I made it more accurate for you.
Sycophants like you are the reason why Trump got elected.
