“… the rule plus the revocation of the California waiver is a huge win for auto buyers and drivers, but it should and could have gone much further in increasing consumer choice, especially in terms of safer vehicles, and still have complied with the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 that created CAFE standards.” (Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute)
“Demand destruction from the current Pandemic offers a new opportunity for demand construction. Letting the petroleum industry, from the wellhead to the pump, receive its rightful free-market demand in the car and truck market should be a ‘restart’ strategy of the Trump Administration. Full repeal of CAFE would be part of this.” (below)
The Trump Administration has rolled back Obama’s 2012 proposal to mandate a 5 percent annual fuel reduction per mile from covered motor vehicles.…
The Progressive Left is at war with itself. Instead of incrementally getting to where they want to go in a period of general prosperity, the Pandemic has offered up a destination that deep ecologists have celebrated. It is, rightfully, a PR disaster for climate alarmism.
“We’re the virus.’ How eco-fascism hurts climate action,” rang the title of a ClimateWire piece by Jennifer Hijazi of April 8, 2020.
Her article begins:
…Sharp declines in emissions from the coronavirus pandemic are a vivid illustration of the challenge of addressing climate change, rather than a silver lining, according to experts.
As the health crisis drags on, there’s a growing effort to recast the downward trajectory of carbon dioxide as a warning about the depth of action that’s needed to slow global temperature increases.
The CLINTEL members, who live in Europe, have seen the destructive outcomes of climate-related energy policies; widespread heat-or-eat poverty, systematic industrial ‘massacre’, … unemployment, and crippling ‘green’ subsidies. This is even truer today, due to the growing COVID-19 pandemic. What Green New Deal climate activists advocate for is economic suicide. (— Professor Guus Berkhout (Climate Intelligence) to Neil Brown (Poynter Institute)
Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. (‘There is No Climate Emergency,” CLINTEL)
Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) is an EU-based organization promoting climate realism in the face of climate alarmism. CLINTEL authored “There is No Climate Emergency,” prepared by 700 scientists and professionals, which begins:
…Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific.