The Trump administration is bringing an end to many eras for the Democrats. It has brought an end to their open border policies, an end to getting away openly with fraud and abuse, and an end to their climate craze ideology. Among the many wins though the Trump administration has accrued over time, one new one stands out above the rest. One is a win for sanity, normalcy, cars and people's wallets all in one.

That would be the elimination of the Obama-era auto start and stop feature that was forced onto vehicles. Every vehicle essentially post-2010 has been fitted with sensors, computers and features all in some obscene hope to "save the climate." In reality, all these features have done is make once reliable vehicles unreliable, a rise in maintenance costs and an overall frustration for drivers. Sure, there is a button to turn it off. But the cars should never have had them to start.

The auto start and stop feature does nothing to help the climate. Stopping the car's exhaust for 15 seconds at a light is totally nullified when an 18-wheeler pulls up or another car that does not have the feature. It has been a pointless operation that is finally coming to an end.

Marc Morano of the Climate Depot says the whole feature was nothing more than an accounting trick.

"It was dreamed up by the Obama net zero climate team to impose this on automakers to give them an incentive to this little gimmick," he says.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin celebrated the announcement last week, also blasting the technology as an Obama administration climate "participation trophy." Which, that is exactly what it was. It did not do anything productive for the environment. It hurt gas mileage, it hurt car lifespans and it caused maintenance issues. Starters and engines wear out with the constant stopping and starting. It also did not help with gas costs, as people still paid as much as they usually do.

All of it was a scam to force electric vehicles on people eventually. A hope people would buy into the climate craze. But people did not because a climate emergency simply does not exist like they say it does. All along the way too, automakers profited hand over fist. Which is why, at least in a perfect world, the automakers would take care of this themselves.

"Automakers should be forced with the money they made from the stupid incentives to come up with a plan to remove these, at the dealership expense, from these cars saddled with it," says Morano. "I do not expect that, but perhaps there will be a universal system where you can disable it in all cars."

To top it off, no one actually likes the feature. It is annoying feeling the car shut off, especially when the AC cuts off with it in the summertime. It is annoying to turn off; it is just not a necessary thing. People want to go back to things that work.

As has been the case with most moves in the Trump administration, this is another step toward getting back to that sense of normalcy.

"This is a win for common sense, it is a win for engineering...it is a win for logic, because studies show it was not a perceptible impact on fuel savings," Morano says.

It is the end of another era for Democrats. They are seeing the climate craze they worked so hard to worm into our foundations for years be eliminated step by step.

San Antonio's First News