The Trump Train keeps chugging along. And the President tweets insults to Obama, daring him to come out of his hidey hole...
Posted on 03/04/2017 4:22:33 AM PST by reaganaut1
essentially marking a U-turn to efforts to force the American auto industry to produce more electric cars.
My tuned 1 ton duramax can do 33mpg in the mountains withy sled deck on it and all my drawers with tools. I have a total of about 2,000 lbs on.
They need to stop tampering with our stuff and let the manufacturers make us what we want, because a stock truck would never do that.
The Race Gas smelled just like gasoline used to when I wuz a kid. Probably Benzene or such.
You just needed a cracker tower in your back yard....
That has nothing to do with these emissions/fuel economy regulations. That is what the average buyer wants to buy and was even before the Obama years.
Hoxey Puck it doesn’t. This all started With “Jimmie” Carter!
There are no such stations in Maryland. Nanny state is out of complete control here
You do know that higher profile vehicles and larger wheels *reduce* fuel economy, not increase it, right?
Larger wheel and tire is something that has been increasingly popular since the 1980s. You essentially can’t find new aftermarket wheels under 17” and more and most are over 19”.
Taller vehicles have been a design decision driven by women - women found they want to see over everything and when they discovered SUVs they fell in love. Women are driving the increased height of new vehicles.
Fat people are driving the market for taller vehicles. And ground clearance is becoming more important as roads deteriorate.
Big diameter wheels are just for looks (looks that I don’t get). Faster cars do actually need bigger wheels to accommodate larger brakes, so they must be ‘sporty’ when on mundane cars, I guess.
The Trump Train keeps chugging along. And the President tweets insults to Obama, daring him to come out of his hidey hole...
Roll back the idiotic CAFE rules. The rats think you can toss the laws of physics. If he does not these back will be forced to drive golf carts within 5 years. I am not exaggerating. The rules add thousands to the price of cars.
Cars should be stylish as they were in the past and not the same vehicle with different name plate as too many are today.
33mpg.... in a Duramax? Ummmm.... I’ve got plenty of friends with Duramax (Chevy 2500) trucks... and the ones with the best tunes get maybe 22 on long highway trips.
we’re doomed.
I’m deleted and tuned up, no silly def fluid for me.
I don’t think you can come close if one keeps the def system.
Try to explain the benefits of monster BTUs but it needs some heat...
Almost all of the cars today in the US have to meet national emissions/controls standards. The newer EPA regulations were trying to squeeze the last drop out of pollution control at a great economic cost to the average citizen. They wanted to implement these rules despite their knowing about the concept of “the damage caused by the rule of diminishing returns” (i.e., more rules eventually reach the point of no return for their objectives but at great cost to the economy/citizens).
Also, the EPA was after almost all diesel engines that they accused of creating more pollution (only the older engines might do some), ignoring the fact that most newer engines are very good at controlling pollution emissions.
They were also after ships, trucks, trains and planes that used any kind of diesel fuel, with the hidden goal of getting them off the streets and exerting a totalitarian control over the transportation industry, thus destroying tens of thousands of jobs (maybe more).
Lawn-mowers are also included in this environmental coup attempt, as are some gasoline-powered tools (leaf-blowers, generators I think, etc).
The EPA over the decades has often been run by Marxists/socialists (Carol Browner and Lisa Jackson) with terrible results while giving political cover to some states for their disasterous policies regarding environmental cleanups such as California’s “Stringfellow” extremely costly fiasco case and the more recent King Gold Mine holding damn destruction and subsequent pollution of major rivers in New Mexico.
A major overhaul of the EPA and a purge of its extreme leftist leaders should happen ASAP but with the knowledge that many EPA workers are conscientious, sane, and professional people who have been forced to promulgate policies that have had the exact opposite effect of what was desired.
We’ve had ever-increasing regulations for automobiles, factories, etc. for decades now. I have never once heard an environmentalist puke say, “Things are getting better with the steps we’ve taken. We have a ways to go, but things are getting better.” Never. Just, “OMG the sky is falling we need more regulations it’s not enough it’s never enough.”
Hey he did stop the oceans from rising, give him a break.
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