XPost: talk.politics.misc, sac.politics   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:44:32 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   > |   
   > | The momentous end to the federal government's legal   
   > | authority to fight climate change makes it official.   
   > |   
   > | The United States will essentially have no laws on the   
   > | books that enforce how efficient America's passenger cars   
   > | and trucks should be.   
   > |   
   > | That's the practical result of the Trump administration's   
   > | yearlong parade of regulatory rollbacks, capped on Thursday   
   > | by its killing of the "endangerment finding," the   
   > | scientific determination that required the Environmental   
   > | Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases because of   
   > | the threat to human health.   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
      
   LAUGHTER!   
      
   You mean like how we were going to save the planet with stop / start   
   technology?  Instead it's turned into a boondoggle that requires the   
   replacement  of expensive parts and contaminates the environment with   
   the additional batteries that fail.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)