archive.today • What to Know About Biden's New Clean Cars Regulation - The New York Times
The quote is the very last paragraph. The media is so annoying. I often don't read articles from start to finish anymore. I scan them to find the bit that finally gets to the fucking point.
The other links are at the top of the homepage - https://www.nytimes.com/
By continuing to emit carbon you force - not tell - people to live in a dying biosphere. Come up with a solution to that that isn't just whining. And these rules don't apply to emergency service vehicles. They apply to the 99% of vehicles on the road which are not emergency service vehicles. Emergency service vehicles can be powered by directly burning a barrel of crude oil under a tank of water for all I care.
instead of bad faith and hostility, maybe you could try to have a productive discussion. the US economic sector emitting the most greenhouse gas is transportation. and 83% of transportation emissions are from cars and trucks. that second link goes on to show that using cars and trucks for personal transport and freight are the worst for CO2 emissions, except air freight (much worse than truck freight). but air travel emits less CO2 per passenger-mile compared to personal vehicles. there are many reasons China emits a lot less CO2 per capital than the US but one of them is the widespread use of mass transit