Toyota joins lawsuit to keep air dirty -- Tape 1

AB1493, chaptered as statutes of 2002, calls for a 30% reduction in auto emissions of Green House Gases ("GHG", principally CO2) by 2016.

The Auto Makers Alliance is suing the state of california in Fresno Federal Court, claiming that regulating CO2 is tantamount to regulating mpg, pre-empted by the federal government's Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency ("CAFE") standards. Of course, the federal standards are very lax, and politically cannot be made stronger (Democrrat Dingell represents the unions, who join with Republicans to defeat any strengthening of that law).

Previous attempts to regulate emissions runs into the Constitutional restriction of interstate trade regulation to the federal government. This was to prevent a patchwork of regulations that stifled trade.

There is also AB32, a new California statute that calls for lowering all GHG emissions 25% by 2020. This law is also being challenged by the "dirty duo", auto and oil company industry associations.

Prime malefactors are the Auto Manufacturers Alliance and Western States Petroleum, which have fought for dirty air for the last 20 years.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• RAV4-EV
• EV1
• picketing Toyota
• Who Killed the Electric car

[liveoilfree]

Toyota lost the lawsuit, but now the Bush oil-flunkies are denying California the EPA permission to continue to set its higher standards. So Toyota is allied with Bush as well as GM.

[KaneFenton4Freedom]

This is dumb. Government shouldn't be regulating car companies telling them how many mpg they have to get. Companies will make more efficient cars over time without government restricting the crap out of everything. This will hurt they economy. Click on my name and see my channel...LIMITED GOVERNMENT!

[liveoilfree]

That's insane. Allow the auto companies to do what they want, and there would be no emission controls.

Government is needed as a 'fair broker' to level the playing field.

[filmmaker123]

hello. you sent me this video. When was this protest??? last year? ten years ago? i think you should go to borders and buy your self a video production book read it. then come back and look at this film and see just how crappy it is. =)

keep the filmmaking going!

peace!

[liveoilfree]

I'm not a film maker, just report the facts.

[maveric99]

It's a wonderful film. But that is a good question about when this protest occurred. Was it recent or did this happen years ago? I see that you added it to youtube on 10/23/07. Thanks for your efforts on this!

[liveoilfree]

That's when it was, it's all about AB1493, the auto alliance suing California to keep the air dirty.

[juki0h]

they keep saying, get our airs cleaned up, but fuck man, its not just toyota! its every fukn car on the road! if one of them drives a gas car, their a hyprocrite! their just doing this because they hate toyotas success, they hate that toyota is number 1 in the world, jealousy

[juki0h]

@Xytos smart japanese actually

[Xytos]

because they're fucking dumb dirty japanese scumbags

[invicta62]

Screw California!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lexusES350h]

I thought this was about the recall haha, poor toyota, i feel bad for all the critismn they are getting. =[

[clos19851]

oops 2007 haha lol

[clos19851]

its is true most people would not want a car that only get 100 miles that too little of a range, and take too long to recharge and they will lose money cuz electric will not acommadate a person who is always on the go..that is why we must go fuel cell and not electric.

[AnytimeMinutes]

It'd be hilarious to run over there in circles with my diesel, even though it does get an efficient 22 mpg, they don't know that xD

[edstar83]

in other words... DO NOT BUY A NEW CAR UNLESS IT IS ELECTRIC. People power! yeah?

[edstar83]

If people want EV's... STOP BUYING every brand new $50 000 fossil fuel smog machine they release every year!!!! keep your current gas car until they listen to our demands and release EV's. its that simple.