Rivers

The new implementation of EPA rules on heavy trucks has boosted the 10-year regulatory burden on America past $1 trillion, 75 percent of which have been imposed by the Obama administration.

That amounts to a one-time charge of $3,080 per person, or an annual cost of $540, according to a new analysis from American Action Forum.

Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-epa-rules-push-regulatory-costs-past-1-trillion-3080-per-person/article/2608593

Glaucon

First thing you know we will have regulations that prohibit twelve year olds from working ten hours a day in shirt factories, going the wrong way on a one way streets, beating your wife, and prohibiting drunks from driving on the freeways. OMG where will these regulations end?

Rivers

Hopefully they end when they put people like you in institutions.

Zombiefarmer23 Loc: Bull Hills

Commie moron troll alert!! I see George's last check cleared. Now go upstairs and pay your mother room and board.

Glaucon

Lock um up if they don't believe in Santa. If we were all packing heat, we could give um what those liberal, commies what they deserve. Put on you sheet and let's get together and plan some lynchings. Or, on the other hand, we could go bowling.

Rivers

Yep, you're getting close to being in that institution....keep up the stupidity.

Zombiefarmer23 Loc: Bull Hills

Young lady, you need to show some respect.

Glaucon

I ain't no lady and I only respect those who deserve respect. The seedy trailer park in which you live is probably not much different form my trailer park and Trump's trailer park. We would all just be working class people if Trump hadn't inherited two hundred fifty three million dollars and you got a job.

Glaucon

Clue: Not everything and everyone you don't understand is stupid. Try not to keep up the stupidity. Read a book, have an original idea, talk to someone who doesn't live in a cardboard box.

Rivers

If you're an example of "intelligent" then this country is in deeper do-do than I thought. have another bowl of stupid.

Glaucon

Quit having those things you call "thoughts." If you quit eating Mexican food, they will all go away, but the drool.

Rivers

More of that "intelligence" thing? Or severe lack there of. Have another bowl of that stupid, you seem to like it so much.

Zombiefarmer23 Loc: Bull Hills

I live in the Bull Hills, in a house my wife and I built ourselves. I am mostly retired, although I am still working as the local sexton. And there it is. We finally agree on something. You ain't no lady because ho's are not ladies. Why does a basement dwelling little girl adopt the name of Plato's retarded brother??

Glaucon

Very lame and childish response. You seem to have shown up to a verbal gun fight with a half loaf of bread.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Rivers,

Hard to find any report on this yet.. The new regs are for 2019 and beyond.

But the last time regs were updated, the right wing had a similar snit fit..

so I found a couple things the apply to what is now history..



The news broke over the weekend that the EPA is expected to propose regulations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from Class 8 trucks, requiring that their fuel economy increase up to 40 percent by 2027, compared with levels in 2010. A tractor-trailer now averages 5 to 6 miles to a gallon of diesel. The new regulations would seek to raise that average to 9 miles a gallon. “Trucks account for one-quarter of all greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles in the United States, even though they make up only 4 percent of traffic, the EPA says.”

Earlier this year I was briefed by Jason Mathers, who leads the Green Freight initiative at the Environmental Defense Fund. Jason’s group had done research that a more aggressive mile per gallon standard would reduce, by 21 cents per mile, the cost to own and operate a truck. For larger shippers, this would translate into millions in annual, bottom-line savings. Although, he did say that the exact payback depends on the prices of diesel, which has been hard to predict.

The New York Times article also said that the new rules were expected to “add $12,000 to $14,000 to the manufacturing cost of a new tractor-trailer, although EPA studies estimate that cost will be recouped after 18 months by fuel savings.”

The Heavy Duty Fuel Efficiency Leadership Group, a trucking industry group formed to provide input into the prior fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards, also praised Obama's announcement.

“Collectively, we have made significant progress toward reducing emissions and improving efficiencies--both of which benefit customers, the public and the environment,” Tom Linebarger, chairman and chief executive officer of Cummins, said in a statement.

Obama during his announcement praised the success of the National Clean Fleets Partnership, a public-private group that provides technical assistance to companies that choose to improve the fuel efficiency of their trucking fleets. To date, 23 companies, including Coca-Cola, UPS, AT&T, Enterprise Holdings and Waste Management, have joined the partnership.

The Heavy Duty Fuel Efficiency Leadership Group urged the federal government to ensure its standards would harmonize with California regulations as part of a statement of principles issued Feb. 18.

The California Air Resources Board issued greenhouse gas emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in December 2013. The standards largely align with federal requirements. However, the California regulations extend through model year 2019, while the federal standards only cover up to model year 2018 .