EPA chief wants you to waste gas

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Lee Zeldin’s environmental vision for America might not include holding businesses accountable for poisoning its citizens, but he is declaring war on one evil culprit—gas-saving vehicle features. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is going after the stop-start technology installed in most vehicles. The tech, introduced during the Obama administration, shuts off a driver’s car while at a complete stop in order to save gas.

“Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy,” Zeldin wrote via X Monday. “EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it.”

On one hand, it seems no one has yet to inform Zeldin that you can manually turn this feature off yourself by clicking a button in your vehicle. It is unclear if Zeldin also needs to be informed about the existence of other new technologies such as the rearview camera and the mysterious Bluetooth feature as well.

On the other hand, Zeldin and Donald Trump’s administration cannot simply flip a switch—even one they can find—to get rid of this feature. The Obama administration provided incentives for car manufacturers to install the environmentally friendly feature on vehicles, but removing that incentive does not mean that the vehicle industry will stop making green features on their latest models.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/12/2321925/-EPA-chief-wants-you-to-waste-gas

[MiHale]

1. Collective bunch of idiots...

and then they think we are.

[underpants]

2. It takes 7 seconds of gas to start your car

Even before I got a car with auto shutoff I’d kill the engine if I was sitting at a light unless it was really hot or really cold.

[TnDem]

3. re: "stop/start" bullshit

This "stop/start" is the biggest bunch of pantywaist horseshit i have ever encountered with automobile "technology"... This is obviously designed by handwringing people that have zero idea about automobile longevity in mind..

This "feature" wear starters out much quicker and some studies have proven that it actually WASTES fuel because of the constant cranking and re-cranking of the engine which burns more fuel than just letting it run.

Thank God there are sensible fixes for this retarded stupidity, much like the constant dipshitted EPA re-design of gas can nozzles every other year.

There are now cottage industries to fix asinine people trying to save us from ourselves.

Shit like this is why we lose elections.

[House of Roberts]

4. If he wants me to waste gas,

he'll have to ride with me and stomp his foot on mine on the accelerator. I drive inside the 'eco' map that keeps the consumption to a minimum and I no longer hot-rod around because I'm retired and I have the time.

Rather than rely on the shutoff feature, it works better to drive farther ahead and anticipate lights changing to green while you're still rolling. Not only does it save gas, it also reduces mechanical wear as well as tires.