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http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2002/10/07/daily36.html
20:15 EDT Thursday White House opposes electric-car rule
The Bush administration has sided with automakers in a court
fight over whether California can require them to sell
electric cars.
The president, whose chief-of-staff was at one time the top
lobbyist for General Motors, weighed in on the matter
Wednesday with a brief filed in the U.S. District Court of
Appeals in San Francisco, according to published reports.
The move is reportedly the first challenge by the federal
government to a California program to limit auto emissions;
a 1967 federal law gave the smog-challenged state the
authority to set its own emissions standards.
The state Air Resources Board set rules last year revising
the state's "zero- emission vehicle" guidelines. The
revisions stepped back from prior guidelines, which called
for 10 percent of all vehicles sold in California by the
2003 model year to have no emissions, essentially mandating
electric cars.
The revised rules, driven in part by the technical and
marketing problems with electric vehicles, cut the
requirements to 2 percent electric cars (about 4,600
vehicles) and a mix of gasoline-electric hybrids and "very
low emission" vehicles. The fuel economy of the hybrids
would be a factor in how much they count against the
electric-vehicle requirement.
Automakers went to court to challenge the rules; they won an
injunction in June delaying them until the 2005 model year.
The Bush brief backs the industry's contention that the
state's rule infringes on the exclusive federal right to
regulate fuel economy.
� 2002 American City Business Journals Inc.
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