MILEAGE STANDARDS….Remember that EPA report about greenhouse gases that the White House refused to open its email to read? I missed this when it was first posted a few days ago, but the report’s conclusions have a little more punch when you see them in the original. So here they are, courtesy of the Wonk Room:
“Far outweigh,” by the way, turns out to mean about $2 trillion. Not bad for a bunch of tree huggers.
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