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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Revisiting Chevron
Date: 01/22/24 1:50 PM
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If Chevron is overturned and agencies no longer have that power, then who will make policy decisions? The courts. And as Sotomayor pointed out during questioning, since justices “routinely disagree” about a law’s meaning the courts will find it impossible to agree on a “best” interpretation of a law.

Yet courts will have to make those kinds of policy decisions anyway. Or tell legislators to rewrite the law, which they cannot do because they're not technical experts.

A variation of Catch-22. - CO


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I agree and would add that for the most part regulations are accepted and generally unchallenged. But when apparent over reach steps on some one with the resources to fight, that person should have access to recourse to an impartial venue. You don't get that when the defendant is also the courts experts witness.

The EPA should not be able to declare the half acre swampy area on one corner of my property is a federal waterway, regulate it, and that be the end of it.

In a separate but related criticism of the way congress operates is found in legislation that good sounding goal without consideration to the difficulty or impossibility of actually implementing it. Leave it to the bureaucrats gets them off the hook.

One example is the EV Mandate.... You are commanded to sell so many by some date they say to automakers with about zero consideration whether the citizenry would desire and buy such a vehicle in the numbers mandated. Ford is unwinding its Electric F150 manufacturing due to no market. Inefficient for Ford and for our economy.

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