Comments on: Fuel Efficiency Standards To Change In 2012… Finally. http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/04/05/fuel-efficiency-standards-to-change-in-2012-finally/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Going Green. Thu, 24 May 2012 10:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sven http://thegoodhuman.com/2010/04/05/fuel-efficiency-standards-to-change-in-2012-finally/#comment-6010 Sven Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:10:20 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2766#comment-6010 When you compare it to other countries' efficiency standards, this is basically just catching up, but I do agree that it's huge for the U.S. to get this done. More important than the discussion of whether the raise in fuel efficiency is big enough might be the fact that by raising them at all we are finally setting the wheels in motion toward further improvements. My friend, who has been working for the EPA for many years, had this to say: "This is BIG. The very first US regulations which place controls on emissions of greenhouse gases! Now we just have to keep Congess and the courts from overturning this major achievement." I usually trust the cues from people like him, who aren't political operatives but work on the actual nuts and bolts of implementing policy. So if he says it's big, it is BIG. When you compare it to other countries’ efficiency standards, this is basically just catching up, but I do agree that it’s huge for the U.S. to get this done. More important than the discussion of whether the raise in fuel efficiency is big enough might be the fact that by raising them at all we are finally setting the wheels in motion toward further improvements. My friend, who has been working for the EPA for many years, had this to say:

“This is BIG. The very first US regulations which place controls on emissions of greenhouse gases!

Now we just have to keep Congess and the courts from overturning this major achievement.”

I usually trust the cues from people like him, who aren’t political operatives but work on the actual nuts and bolts of implementing policy. So if he says it’s big, it is BIG.

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