Justice Dept. launches antitrust probe of automakers over their fuel efficiency deal with California

Trump is the King of the Oval Office.

 

You got it.

 

It is called ILLOGIC !

 

I see someone doesn't understand AFR's.

 

You are mistaken. Meeting California standards will require lighter smaller cars along with very expensive new smog reducing technology. Cars today have already been electronically tweaked as far as possible to squeeze out ever possible mpg.

 

Still a small fraction of overall sales and we can't let them force very expensive government imposed standards on the rest of us
. Government imposed are the operative words here

 

The things that make cars more fuel efficient are almost entirely under the drivers control.

 

You mean you can't just keep reducing the fuel in a combustion engine and it won't keep working? Whaaa.

 

They are free to do so on their own to meet market demand if it exist

 

California cannot legally impose anything on the other 49 states. If the automakers are bending to the will of California then it is on them.

 

No it's ultimately on us when we all have to buy California cars

 

They're free to move to CA and make them there.

Otherwise it's interstate commerce.

 

No. Not so. The way you drive is just a small part of it.

 

Wrong, it's 70% of it.

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/mythbusters-use-hypermiling-improve-gas-mileage-70-percent/

 

Mileage will be affected by those of driving such as city stop and go driving with extensive driving will screw with your efficiency. Driving in hilly or mountenous terrain will also. Having to use air or heat has an effect.

 

Are you confusing how one drives with where you drive?

 

California pollution standards are a joke.. My brother has a nice organized pegboard in the garage that he hangs all his trucks smog stuff on and once a year he reequips his vehicle with them, passes smog and then takes those parts back off and hangs them back on the pegboard until the next year.. The odd thing is the yearly smog check and the state fee's are really all it's about, and no one/vehicle is ever checked beyond that lil piece of paper that says you and that vehicle are in compliance..

Everything in CALIFORNIA is a scam, illusion and in almost every instance JUST a means to suck a buck out of citizens! California is a plague and it should be kept contained within its borders..

 

No, they're trying to create mandated markets with technology nobody wants to buy from them currently

 

No he wants to protect them from the government of California

 

BFS.
Don't be simple.
What you describe doesn't take government mandates to accomplish

 

There is something in constitutional law referred to as the dormant commerce clause. This is what we are seeing a smart admin use to protect the auto industry and consumers in 49 states.

 

Well Government fuel/mileage standards are hardly a Trump thing

 

How dare they violate interstate commerce. Their trying to dictate their standard to automobiles that are sold across state lines violates interstate commerce the federal government's authority to set such standards.

 

I did not say that it takes the government. That is what the auto makers aim is.

 

It's a matter of weight to power.