BUSH JOINS FIGHT AGAINST ELECTRIC CARS

White House Joins Fight Against Electric Cars

The New York Times Wednesday, October 9, 2002

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - The Bush administration went to court today to support the automobile industry's effort to eliminate requirements in California that auto manufacturers sell electric cars.

President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., was the chief lobbyist for General Motors, one of the plaintiffs in the case. Mr. Card was also head of an auto industry trade association when California proposed to require electric vehicles, and has publicly opposed such a requirement.

Under California clean air rules, 10 percent of the vehicles sold in the 2003 to 2008 model years must be electric or 'zero-emission vehicles.' But the state, recognizing that the car companies were not ready to meet that goal, offered to let them sell hybrid vehicles, which run on gasoline and electricity, to satisfy part of the requirement.

Still, the industry wants to avoid having quotas at all and was not satisfied with that relaxation of the rules. It sued the state, arguing that the hybrid provision violated federal law.

Katherine Kennedy, a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which supports the California rule, said that California 'attempted to make things more flexible for the car manufacturers, and cheaper, and this lawsuit is what they got as thanks.'

In a brief filed today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, the Bush administration endorsed the industry's argument that this substitution was improper because it would, in effect, regulate fuel economy standards, over which the federal government holds exclusive jurisdiction. The car companies would get credit toward the electric-vehicle quota depending on the fuel economy of the hybrids.

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Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2002 by kskiska

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Bush Thinks We Need More Pollution

because it's good for one's health! Bush is anti-people and pro rich!

Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2002 by farmboxer

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Any way to make a buck!

Must buy OIL dammit!!!

Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2002 by Rex

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Remember when Bush claimed to be a fan of 'state's rights' and said that the feds should stay out of local affairs?

as far as Russia, they don't need oil, but they don't want Iraqi oil cheap tho as it would undermine their oil reserves. besides, they signed some massive technology aggreement with Iraq which has nothing to do with oil (I think). its money they money they want really....

Bush has a plan to occupy Iraq; the Russians could get what they want from the US (if they meet certain conditions).

Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti

So much for States Rights.

The big Power Play by the Bush administration

in this and other arenas will have a backlash.

Yes the pendulum will swing back.

States will once again be able to protect their residents from greedy unscrupulous polluting businesses. States will once again be able to determine what HERBS it deems safe for its people. In the bigger picture war will no longer be considered sport by our nation and the US will humble itself. Not today, not next week, but given time the tide will be turned back. Amen.

Love and Peace, Namaste

Doc Kunda The Urban Shaman