{"id":30106,"date":"2018-08-02T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30106"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:59:17","slug":"there-is-one-country-in-this-world-moving-away-from-more-efficient-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/there-is-one-country-in-this-world-moving-away-from-more-efficient-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"There is one country in this world moving away from more efficient transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that is the United States, and that is because of Donald Trump. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/2018\/08\/01\/90c818ac-9125-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html?utm_term=.968964a790fd&#038;wpisrc=al_news__alert-economy--alert-national&#038;wpmk=1\">WaPo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans to freeze fuel-efficiency requirements for the nation\u2019s cars and trucks through 2026 \u2014 a massive regulatory rollback likely to spur a legal battle with California and other states, as well as create potential upheaval in the nation\u2019s automotive market.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal represents an abrupt reversal of the findings that the government reached under President Barack Obama, when regulators argued that requiring more-fuel-efficient vehicles would improve public health, combat climate change and save consumers money without compromising safety.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s plan also undercuts California\u2019s long-standing ability to set its own tailpipe restrictions, most recently in an effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is the rational for this? There is only one. Hippie punching. He is showing his base that he has yet another way to make the liberals cry.<\/p>\n<p>But guess what. The liberals will not cry. But they will fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that is the United States, and that is because of Donald Trump. From WaPo: The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans to freeze fuel-efficiency requirements for the nation\u2019s cars and trucks through 2026 \u2014 a massive regulatory rollback likely to spur a legal battle with California and other states, as well as create potential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/there-is-one-country-in-this-world-moving-away-from-more-efficient-transportation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There is one country in this world moving away from more efficient transportation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021,5049,5026],"tags":[5442,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Delorable_T_Shirt_Greg_Laden_Blog.jpg?fit=522%2C488&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7PA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30109,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106\/revisions\/30109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}