<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Select Committee acquires documents related to EPA’s proposals for rulemaking on auto emissions]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/house-rules/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:53:47 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/house-rules/1 Regulate Me to Eat Copper River Salmon Then!


The draft notes that advanced technologies like plug-in hybrid vehicles could help raise fuel efficiency well beyond 35 miles per gallon between 2020 and 2025.

Look...if GM comes out with a plug in hybrid like the Volt that supposedly get 150 mpg there's going to be no shortage of customers.   You don't have to regulate the obvious into existence.  If it happens, great...but demanding it to happen won't make it so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A17JrjXYcxs

BTW -- I've been feasting on Copper River Salmon the past four days.  No need for government intervention...


]]> Regulate Me to Eat Copper River Salmon Then!


The draft notes that advanced technologies like plug-in hybrid vehicles could help raise fuel efficiency well beyond 35 miles per gallon between 2020 and 2025.

Look...if GM comes out with a plug in hybrid like the Volt that supposedly get 150 mpg there's going to be no shortage of customers.   You don't have to regulate the obvious into existence.  If it happens, great...but demanding it to happen won't make it so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A17JrjXYcxs

BTW -- I've been feasting on Copper River Salmon the past four days.  No need for government intervention...


]]> Comment #2 by Driver of Innovation http://www.grist.org/article/house-rules/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:40:40 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/house-rules/2 Market Driven

Whether or not gas is $2 a gallon or $20 a gallon has absolutely no impact on technical feasibility.  Congress or the EPA can mandate certain things but they can't mandate the laws of physics.  What was technologically feasible at $3 dollars a gallon doesn't beome any more feasible as the cost of gas increases.  And even if it is technologically feasible (see Honda Clarity) it doesn't make it cost effective (Honda's president said that the Clarity costs several hundred thousand dollars to make).  Consider this without one ounce of government intervention high gas prices, i.e. the market, has reuslted in:

Americans driving 1.4 billion Fewer Highway Miles in April of 2008 than in April 2007

A decline of nearly 20 billion miles traveled this year, and nearly 30 billion miles traveled since November.

2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008.  This is almost 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period.    

EIA estimating U.S. petroleum consumption will shrink by 290,000 bbl/day in 2008.

A corresponding 20 million ton CO2 reduction from autos in 2008.

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Whether or not gas is $2 a gallon or $20 a gallon has absolutely no impact on technical feasibility.  Congress or the EPA can mandate certain things but they can't mandate the laws of physics.  What was technologically feasible at $3 dollars a gallon doesn't beome any more feasible as the cost of gas increases.  And even if it is technologically feasible (see Honda Clarity) it doesn't make it cost effective (Honda's president said that the Clarity costs several hundred thousand dollars to make).  Consider this without one ounce of government intervention high gas prices, i.e. the market, has reuslted in:

Americans driving 1.4 billion Fewer Highway Miles in April of 2008 than in April 2007

A decline of nearly 20 billion miles traveled this year, and nearly 30 billion miles traveled since November.

2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008.  This is almost 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period.    

EIA estimating U.S. petroleum consumption will shrink by 290,000 bbl/day in 2008.

A corresponding 20 million ton CO2 reduction from autos in 2008.

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