In an interview published Monday ,Republican senator James Inhofe (anyone ever heard of him?) has called President Obama's plan to let 14 states regulate their own fuel emission standards "environmental thuggery." Obama issued an executive order seeking to reduce greenhouse gases by allowing states to require stricter fuel standards for cars.
The federal government's fuel standards guidelines are thought by many to be lax and many states have wanted for a long time to enforce stricter limits on themselves. There's no reason to stop them from doing so except that it could be harmful to industries--industries who give a lot of money to Republicans. So it should come as no surprise that federal government--then under the control of former Texas governor (and Republican) George W. Bush--explicity prohibited them from doing so.
And Obama is the thug? C'mon, Inhofe. Get your head out of your ass.
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