Fuel-efficient cars benefit
everyone except oil firms
It is no surprise that the science-denying Trump administration’s EPA under Scott Pruitt is trying to end Obama’s, and California’s, fuel efficiency standards.
Nearly everyone benefits from cleaner cars. Not only do they help combat climate chaos, but they give us cleaner air (there are 21,000 premature deaths per year in California due to air pollution). They are also cheaper to operate, and they provide manufacturing jobs here in California (not Saudi Arabia). Without oil imports, we can cut military spending and build a prosperous clean energy economy.
The only ones who will not benefit by cleaner cars are the oil companies. And they are up to their usual climate denying tricks and misinformation. California’s Legislature needs to stand firm for fuel efficiency, and we all need to push for a Congress that will tell the EPA to do its job and protect the environment, not oil company profits.
Jack Fleck
Oakland
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