Too bad they didn’t scrap the requirements entirely. But it’s a step in the right direction.
The Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that the finalized standards would correspond to a combined industry fleetwide average of roughly 34.9 miles per gallon for passenger cars and light trucks in the 2031 model year. That’s up from 30.1 miles per gallon for model year 2024, but down from a projected 50.4 miles per gallon in 2031 under rules put in place by the Biden administration.
Trump can’t kill it completely, but it’s a start.
When they started this BS, everyone just switched to vans and trucks.
The entire light truck market was destroyed by this crap. Envirowankers complain about giant trucks everywhere when it was their own stupid laws that created the demand.
No one is ever going to convince me that the federal government telling automakers what their corporate average fuel economy must be is Constitutional.
Unless we are still “saving the planet” from globnbwxisyg, why are there any fuel economy standards? What’s wrong with allowing tiny Indian-made utes to take their chances with big SUVs on the roads? Nanny-state, ffokoff.
So no more performance cars? No more pickups towing trailers?
Idiocy.
You can’t get rid of powerful pickups. They are the bread and butter of the oilpatch.
“Environmental groups estimate now, without stricter standards, cars could produce 22,111 more tons of carbon dioxide per year than under the Biden-era rules in 2035.”
Here’s what the IPCC says about the impact:
: “For every 1000 GtCO2 emitted by human activity, global surface temperature rises by 0.45°C (best estimate, with a likely range from 0.27°C to 0.63°C).”
That works out to be 0.00000000045°C / ton. Let’s do the math:
0.00000000045°C / ton x 22111 tons / year = 0.0000099°C / year, or 1°C per 100,503 years.
End of the world! The sky is falling.
Source, See Page 19: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
But, but, but … a GIANT unprecedented Nor-Easter! Winds! Flooding! Super Cells! Super Tides! And a Cat. 6 !!!!! Hurricane in the Pacific Ocean!!!!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Mommmaaaaaaaaaaa … look what that 0.0000002 deg. has done to our fragile, fragile planet!!!
Did you hear about the hurricane that made land in New Jersey and caused $6 billion in improvements?
Can confirm.
My 1980 Honda Civic routinely got >40mpg. I don’t recall all this CAFE crap spiraling out of control FORCING Honda to make small econo-boxes. If someone wants to drive an econo-box … let em. And let the rest of us drive whatever the hell we want. Pssst … Jimmy Carter isn’t POTUS anymore. Our current POTUS isn’t lecturing us to lower our expectations. That’s what Democrat-Socialist-Fascists do.
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Next lets remove $10,000 worth of mandated surveillance features.