> Yet the Senate parliamentarian, the nonpartisan arbiter of the upper chamber’s rules and procedures, ruled last month that the waiver is not a regulation subject to the Congressional Review Act.
> Regardless of action on Capitol Hill, the EPA could revoke California’s waivers on its own.
So the House voted to block this but it's pretty murky whether congress has such an authority, but the EPA _does_ have such an authority ... but why does any federal body have this authority? I can see how e.g. if CA attempts to outlaw residents from buying cars in NV, that this would be an inter-state commerce issue. But if a CA resident wants to buy a car (from a dealership) in CA, why shouldn't CA be able to set requirements about that car?
The current "Advanced Clean Cars II" is operating under a federal EPA waiver for California and 12 other states. The EPA regulates sources of pollution, which includes internal combustion automobiles. The current waiver allows California (and the other states with identical legislation) to have stricter pollution standards for cars than the rest of the U.S..
California could institute a special sales tax on internal combustion engine vehicles and raise the rate on gas taxes without federal interference.
It’s really annoying. I want to have the discussion. There’s some interesting things to understand here like whether congress should be able to block state regulations. If they can’t is that power in the EPA?
It’s disappointing to me that we can’t even have conversations about how governments should work because people are so worried about having their feelings hurt they flag everything :/
Now they're trying to step on state based decisions?
Is it purely an "I like this but I don't like that" decision process?
https://www.autosinnovate.org/posts/blog/repeal-gas-vehicle-...
https://www.autosinnovate.org/posts/press-release/house-repe...
See the membership here:
https://www.autosinnovate.org/about/our-members
..which includes companies like Hyundai, Kia, General Motors, Ford, Honda, etc. (which are currently the biggest players in the EV market behind Tesla in the U.S.), and of course the usual players without much headway in the EV space: Toyota, Subaru, Mazda, etc..
The ZEV sales requirements start with the 2026 model year, and steadily increase:
Model| ZEV
Year | sales
-------+-------
2026 | 35%
2027 | 43%
2028 | 51%
2029 | 59%
2030 | 68%
2031 | 76%
2032 | 82%
2033 | 88%
2034 | 94%
2035+|100%The great irony of the party of small government is how over-reaching and heavily involved they want the Federal Government to be for the things they don't like.
There are real small government parties in the US, they just don't get any real traction thanks to the deliberate efforts of the uniparty to keep all real competition out.
From the context of the overton window of individualists, anarchists, voluntaryists, and even federalists, hahahahaha, LOL, not even close.
Trump is a big-government left-wing socialist who has vocally pledged not to touch OASI, Medicare, or Medicaid, which collectively cost about half of the entire federal budget. Socialism has simply been so normalized in this country that even left-wing statist socialists like Trump can be perceived as right-wing authoritarians.
And then you have the fact that if California really wanted to get rid of ICE cars, there are plenty of other things they can do that are worse than this. Astronomical gasoline taxes, registration fees, licensing requirements, etc. Requiring extraordinarily costly seismic retrofits on oil refineries. Require huge bonds on fuel stations to cover potential cleanup costs, etc.
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