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Environment/Energy · Regulation

Chevy Volt Too Green for EPA

Last week I read an article which asked the question: Why aren’t we seeing any Chevy Volts yet? This car promises to be the ‘green’-est mass production vehicle to date, but there is nary a one on the road. Here’s the reason: The EPA–yes, the same organization forcing a pseudo-scientific anti-corporate agenda down your throats through excessive regulation–is too incompetent and bureaucratic to use their own (federally-mandated) EPA fuel-efficiency labeling system. Says the article:

It’s illegal to sell new cars in the United States without an EPA fuel economy label — and the government still hasn’t figured out how to measure the Volt’s fuel economy. That means no fuel economy label and that means GM dealers still can’t start selling the cars.

The fact that the volt is so green is the one reason it can’t get through the environmental regulatory process and start “saving the environment” one harmless CO2 particle at a time.

— Marc Oestreich

Marc Oestreich is a former legislative specialist on education and telecommunications, and coordinator of digital media at The Heartland Institute. He is now a marketing manager at Golden Technologies in Valparaiso, Indiana. Prior to joining Heartland, Marc was a graduate student at Purdue University studying political psychology and education policy. He enjoys defending liberty, writing about education and technology, music, designing websites, and is a fan of the NFL team in Indianapolis. Go Colts!

  • http://twitter.com/billmckee Bill McKee

    Tax payer dollars at work. … feeding the beast. Why do we continue to abide this foolish waste of resources and over regulation? This is America.. where it was once the one place in the world where freedom reigned.. not Statism. If we intend to remain free from the clutches of tyranny, it’s time to find and elect people who have a sense of balance. Today, the far left is determined to summarily execute on plans that Karl Marx introduced some 150 years ago. It’s failed to live up to it’s promises.. but it does concentrate power into the political class.. and this “Volt” issue is an early example of what is in store for all corners of our economy and freedom as Statism strangles the American dream.

  • Supsoo

    but how are tesla on the road?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1330671690 Randall R. Kniess

    The Chevy Edsel- 2011

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    In the marketing world green is all the rage, they think any green product will sell like hot potatoes, well, it isn’t true.
    http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/green-isn’t-good-why-green-marketing-fails

  • http://twitter.com/politlobotomy Political Lobotomy

    How is this possible? There is always consequences to growth and prosperity. Liberals never seem to understand that.

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  • Jodell

    You are letting your political leanings get in the way of the facts! There’s the little matter of GM’s own agenda. The company never planned to have Volts in the market this soon. Mid-December is the on-sale timeline. And the EPA, for all its faults, also is dealing with the little issue of the Volt using two different power and fuel sources – something not covered by the present fuel-efficiency labeling system, so they have to come up with a new methodology and are deep in daily negotiations with GM over how to do this.