Posted on 10/01/2010 9:59:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Should new cars be required to get 62 mpg by 2025? That's one scenario under an Obama administration notice filed Friday for drafting mileage standards covering the period from 2017 to 2025.
The fleet of new vehicles may need to meet a standard set somewhere from a low of 47 mpg to a high of 62 mpg, the administration said in its notice of intent.
An initial assessment shows the additional costs for producing high-mileage vehicles ranges from $800 to $3,500, its notice stated, but that cost could be "higher" when a more detailed analysis is completed.
The notice added, however, that the changes would lead to "lifetime savings due to reduced fuel costs of about $5,000 to over $7,000."
The move is framed as a way of attacking climate change, reducing U.S. dependency on foreign oil and growing the economy through cleaner energy jobs.
The administration's "notice of intent" was released by the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, laying the groundwork for a proposal to be issued next year and approved sometime in 2012...
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Of course not, because your an ignorant individual.I love it when some idiot who doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're" calls someone else ignorant.
No kidding.
I guess you must be added to the troll ping list. I love your replies to trolls.
>looks like diesel is the answer. Plenty of Euro diesels get 60+ MPG.
>Fiesta diesel already gets 62 mpg, but Ford doesn’t think they can sell it here for a multitude of reasons.
I’m a big Diesel fan; I have an `83 Oldsmobile that gets in excess of 35 MPG (~38, last time I ran the numbers).
I feel left out. Where are my typos? I thought you were my friend. [sulk sulk sulk pout]
It sometimes takes longer for some than for others.
But rest assured, you will eventually typo.
Maybe not a big glaring noticeable one, but it will happen.
Geeez. Why don’t you add a Confederate Battle Flag to that collection and really T them off! LOL.
I should explain that my grandson (who is headed for college next year) bought a Confederate Battle Flag at a fort in North Carolina this summer to hang on his wall (in NY). His mom had to explain that he’d better be very careful where he displays it — it could get him n a lot of trouble at college.
Isn’t that a shame?
Yes. it is certainly a shame, but your wife is right.
I own the flag, but have yet to fly it. I don’t have a “politically correct” bone in my body, yet I have held off, for now, out of my wife’s concern over insulting conservative Blacks. After 38 years, I almost always do what “yes dear” tells me to do. ;>)
I feel better now. ;-)
so... what’s your point?
you addressed my comment then said something totally irrelevant
I have had 4 little honda civis’s which I love- they get great ags milage and I drive over 50K miles per year so that is why I buy them
I would love to have a hummer and am envious of anyone who does have one.
the government idiots are mandating opposing things- as in all liberal idiot ideas
For starters, I didn’t get an answer to my question of why the govt should be making policy that forces people into a certain make/style of vehicle.
I don’t know if I mis-interpreted what you wrote, but from your post I thought that you supported that. My appologies in advance if I am wrong.
I don’t think my additional comments were irrelevant. I’m simply taking a stand that I will not abide by that type of nonsense, and I think the market should decide what is produced. If light trucks were outlawed completely, I’d buy a dump truck or a semi tractor as my daily driver before I ever got behind the wheel of something that looks like it was bred in a petri dish.
They want us all on the bus or in Trabants..
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