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IHouse Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The funding bill, passed by a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades. Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Marc Molinaro (N.Y.) voted against the bill, while Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) was recorded as voting for it.

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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Fucking GOP is going to kill us all much more quickly. It sounds insane written out but it's absolutely true

[-] Pasta4u@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why? If people want efficient cars they would buy them at high numbers. That would give an incentive for car makers to continue making more efficient cars.

Right now you have a bunch of crap iut there that people don't want like electric cars

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Another quote from the Journal of Rectally Sourced Statistics.

[-] dodgy_bagel 21 points 1 year ago

Trucks are heavily advertised over cars because selling a truck produces more profit.

Over time, those advertisements convince Americans that they need a F-150 4x4 EXTREME DUTY ULTRA RUGGED truck.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know why. But congrats that you got that little ping of dopamine that you get when you "slightly annoy" or fuck with a couple dozen strangers on the internet. That sweet little hit.

But I also bet you get that second, likely smaller ping as well. That one doesn't feel quite as nice, but you're learning to push it to the back, not let it effect you. But it effects you. Every time it takes something away from you and you can feel it. Or at least you used to... until you let it die. And you can't help but feel something else (your empathy perhaps) is gone with it. Forever.

[-] Pasta4u@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nice little post there Timmy. Did you feel good posting it? Can't even refute what I wrote because you know I am right.

24 day old account, -792.

Don’t feed the troll.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Your account is four months. I was talking about pasta.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What you should have said was nothing.

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