Excerpt. Link to the unaffiliated source follows below:
"...Luke Tonachel, a staff scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council disputed the administration’s claims that rolling back the higher fuel standards would make U.S. roads safer. “They’re creating a bogus and false choice. We have cleaner and safer vehicles today, and we can continue to have them under the current fuel-economy standards,” he said.
The administration’s plan will prompt yearslong lawsuits that will delay the delivery of gas-saving technologies to consumers, Tonachel said.
“This proposal will increase what Americans have to pay at the pump and it will only benefit the oil industry,’’ he said. “It increases pollution and threatens our health.’’"Source 7/28/18 article: http://time.com/5352036/trump-auto-plan-fuel-increase/
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Off-site source link: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/contentIncludes/co2_inc.htm
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(I know quite a few probably "just don't want to hear (about) it", but.....) A subject-related 8/6/18 article link. (No affiliation with this tiny blog:)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/earths-scorching-hot-history/566762/
(A quotation from the article:)
“You put more CO2 in the atmosphere and you get more warming, that’s just super-simple physics that we figured out in the 19th century,” says David Naafs, an organic geochemist at the University of Bristol. “But exactly how much it will warm by the end of the century, we don’t know. Based on our research of these ancient climates, though, it’s probably more than we thought...”
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