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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (www.nytimes.com)
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New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

Electricification is the one thing that could make the price of gas irrelevant for Americans

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[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

Also, who wants inefficient cars with oil prices where they are?

Oil execs, aka Trump's friends. US people have been complaining about how hard it is to find a car they actually want for ages. Their dealership model seems to be geared for extracting money from them, and worse mileage at higher prices would be just more of the same.

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