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REGULATIONS * USA - Road rage bill would clear Florida’s left lanes
Tallahassee,FL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -April 21, 2010: -- An effort to keep most Florida drivers out of the state’s fast lanes is on the move at the statehouse... To combat aggressive driving on the state’s multilane highways, the bill is intended to reduce the number of drivers in the far left-hand lane. Dubbed the “Highway Safety Act,” it would give law enforcement more authority to ticket drivers who block traffic, even if they are driving the speed limit in the left lane. A failure to stay to the right would be included as one of the offenses that make up “aggressive careless driving” ... The legislation historically has struggled to advance from committee. It won approval in the House and Senate in 2005, but then-Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed it. He said it would punish people who are driving the speed limit for not getting out of the way of speeders... (Photo from assets.mediaspanonline: Drivers blocking the fast lane could be imposed with a fine)
* USA - CARB again says it may delay multibillion-dollar on-road truck rule
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -April 23, 2010: -- Some truck owners may benefit from the California Air Resources Board’s repeated hints that it could relax its on-road truck and bus regulation... A weakened U.S. economy and corresponding drops in truck emissions in recent years appears to have convinced the nation’s most aggressive air quality agency to consider a delay in enforcement of the rule for two years... CARB first announced in March it would consider slowing enforcement of the on-road rule– a sentiment the air quality agency repeated during its board meeting this week. It is unclear whether small trucking businesses, which already were exempt from enforcement of the rule until 2014 – will be affected by a potential delay... Small trucking fleets are defined in the on-road rule as fleets of one to three trucks... CARB’s estimates have placed the rule’s cost impact at between $6 billion and $10 billion... In March, CARB also announced it would delay the second phase of its two-tiered TRU (reefer rule)... (Photo via Now Public/Treehugger: California emissions)
* EPA Releasing More Realistic MPG Ratings for Plug-In Vehicles
New York,NY,USA -The Wall Street Journal, by SHARON TERLEP - April 17, 2010: -- Federal government rethinking way to calculate fuel-efficiency ratings for electric vehicles. Will likely result in significant reduction in mpg claims some automakers have touted for battery-powered cars plan to launch later this year... Using preliminary formula from EPA, GM last year said Chevy Volt would be rated at 230 miles per gallon in city driving. And Nissan said its Leaf electric car would get equivalent of 367 mpg... But now agency is in midst of finalizing formula in way that will deliver more down-to-earth mileage ratings... Mileage expectation reflected new methodology for electric and plug-in hybrid cars that factored in electricity used to try to reach miles-per-gallon equivalent... Final figures will do same, but EPA is trying to come up w/ better ways to compare electric power with gasoline...
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