U.S. Sets Higher Fuel-Efficiency Standards
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Obama administration issued new fuel economy rules on Tuesday that require auto manufacturers to increase the average efficiency of new cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
The new rules, aimed at reducing fuel consumption and cutting greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, will increase pressure on automakers to develop more alternative-fuel vehicles, like electric and plug-in hybrid cars, as well as improve the mileage of their mass-market models by developing better engines and using lighter materials.
Currently, auto companies are working toward achieving a 35.5 mile-per-gallon average by 2016. The new standards for corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, won support from most automakers last year during negotiations with federal regulators.
The rules for 2025 represent a victory for environmentalists and advocates of fuel conservation. The administration estimates that Americans will reduce oil consumption by 12 billion barrels of oil because of the higher CAFE standards, issued by the Transportation Department.
“These fuel standards represent the single most important step we’ve ever taken to reduce our dependence on foreign oil,” President Obama said in a statement.
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Re: U.S. Sets Higher Fuel-Efficiency Standards
by Pops » Wed 29 Aug 2012, 15:30:03
This is great.
If we go into decline this decade we'll be happy the evil gobermnt declared preemptive war on guzzlers.
P.S. I was wrong to post up the bit about Mitt talking about PO in his book, that one must have slipped by the proofer in chief, LOL. Mitt says these rules are "extreme" and will limit people's freedom of choice. Read that
"Our lifestyle is non-negotiable."
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')omney not only opposes these new rules, but he would undo existing standards requiring new cars reach an average of 35.5 MPG by 2016, the first improvement the fuel economy standards stalled for two decades. Last fall, Romney said he “would get the EPA out of its effort to manage carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles and trucks.” This spring, Romney blasted fuel economy standards again:
ROMNEY: In my view, the industry got in trouble because the UAW asked for too much, management gave too much and made other mistakes, and the government CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] standards hurt domestic automakers and provided a benefit to some of the foreign automakers.
If we go into decline this decade we'll be happy the evil gobermnt declared preemptive war on guzzlers.
P.S. I was wrong to post up the bit about Mitt talking about PO in his book, that one must have slipped by the proofer in chief, LOL. Mitt says these rules are "extreme" and will limit people's freedom of choice. Read that
"Our lifestyle is non-negotiable."
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')omney not only opposes these new rules, but he would undo existing standards requiring new cars reach an average of 35.5 MPG by 2016, the first improvement the fuel economy standards stalled for two decades. Last fall, Romney said he “would get the EPA out of its effort to manage carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles and trucks.” This spring, Romney blasted fuel economy standards again:
ROMNEY: In my view, the industry got in trouble because the UAW asked for too much, management gave too much and made other mistakes, and the government CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] standards hurt domestic automakers and provided a benefit to some of the foreign automakers.
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Re: U.S. Sets Higher Fuel-Efficiency Standards
by Plantagenet » Wed 29 Aug 2012, 15:53:25
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '[')b]U.S. Sets Higher Fuel-Efficiency Standards
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Obama administration issued new fuel economy rules on Tuesday that require auto manufacturers to increase the average efficiency of new cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025...
Currently, auto companies are working toward achieving a 35.5 mile-per-gallon average by 2016.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Obama administration issued new fuel economy rules on Tuesday that require auto manufacturers to increase the average efficiency of new cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025...
Currently, auto companies are working toward achieving a 35.5 mile-per-gallon average by 2016.
This is a nice sounding promise from Obama timed for the middle of the campaign, but it reminds me of Obama's 2008 campaign promises to "stop the seas from rising" and "cut the deficit in half" and other nice sounding things.
If you look at the DOE's own numbers, the only cars that can currently meet even the 2016 standard are the Honda CR-V and various electric cars and hybrids.
Somehow I doubt that most vehicles sold in the USA after 2015 will be CR-Vs and Toyota Prius hybrids and Volts.
DOE data shows most ICE cars can't meet the 2016 standard
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