Posted on 04/02/2022 7:29:07 AM PDT by devane617
New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026, up from about 28 mpg, under new federal rules unveiled Friday that undo a rollback of standards enacted under President Donald Trump.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its new fuel economy requirements are the strongest to date and the maximum the industry can achieve over the time period. They will reduce gasoline consumption by more than 220 billion gallons over the life of vehicles, compared with the Trump standards.
They're expected to decrease carbon dioxide emissions—but not as much as some environmentalists want—and raise new vehicle prices in an industry already pressed by inflation and supply chain issues.
For the current model year, standards enacted under Trump require the fleet of new vehicles to get just under 28 miles per gallon in real-world driving. The new requirements increase gas mileage by 8% per year for model years 2024 and 2025 and 10% in the 2026 model year.
well.. there is a fool involved, but no its not an April fool joke!
No, it’s for real. It’s part of the electrification of transportation agenda. Auto companies will be fined by how much they exceed the requirement. The mileage is an average across all sales. Lots of electric vehicles will allow lots of big pickups.
I don’t get it. How can this be achieved by 2026? Even electric cars are too expensive to help out?
my Chevy Spark is already averaging 38 mpg.
Well, a good plan would be to buy up a bunch of older used cars.. Buy for a little, sell for a lot.. $$$
One problem is that the price of used cars has skyrocketed under Brandon. Decent $3000 beaters are 5 grand now.
It will result in people keeping their vehicles longer and buy used vehicles when they do change vehicles.
It will also depend on how they calculate EVs into the overall fuel mileage of the entire fleet of manufacturer vehicles.
For example, Ford sells Electric Mustangs and F-150s, if they sell one gas powered F-150 that gets 20 mpg and one electric F-150, would that average 40 mpg which seems somewhat logical.
I'm sick of out of control government bureaucracies dictating how we live our lives.
My VW TDI would do 47-48 mpg with great performance…but alas that couldn’t be allowed…bring back the horse and buggy I reckon…this country is being quickly destroyed…
More to push us into electric cars. I don’t have an extension cord that is any longer than 100 feet, so I cannot drive one of those damned electric cars even to the store at the end of the road and that is .6 of a mile.
Here’s the applicable legislation if you want to wade through it.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/corporate-average-fuel-economy
Auctions right now you can get a very decent used vehicle for about $10-20 grand range- even high end auctions like mechums auctions have really nice looking vehicles for aroundmthat range for certain vehicles (the higher end models of course are muchmhigher). I dontmthink,these old,vehicles need to be made complaint with regulations from the epa?
This is the administration’s long range plan for “easing” the impact of soaring gas prices. Force new car models to be high mpg shoeboxes, so that increased mpg will compensate for increased fuel costs.
Soccer moms will feel the pain most.
I'm sick of out of control government bureaucracies dictating how we live our lives.
Well, since you asked, the authority for NHTSA to set Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards is the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975. Catch that? 1975. The authority for EPA to set corresponding GHG tailpipe standards is Title II of the Clean Air Act of 1970. Catch that? 1970. Two statutes, enacted by Congress decades ago.
People who think of themselves as "conservatives" really need to stop indulging in the fantasy that the country's problems stem from the actions of "government bureaucracies" and wise up to the reality that it's the folks that "We the People" elect to office -- be it Congress or the presidency -- who are the problem. Wanna fix the problem? Then elect different people. That's how this stuff works.
Buy vehicles now, and stockpile them (garaged & properly maintained). They’ll be worth many times their current price, since they’ll lack the remote shutoff capabilities and flimsy chassis (due to the MPG standards) of future vehicles.
“Set by Statute in 1975.”
We are so screwed.
Thanks DSH. nascarnation pointed me to that info in post 12.
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Elections do make a difference, but only a slight difference.
Yes, it’s worth it to vote and elect people who are anti-statists, but the chance of a change in direction is slim.
As James Burnham said in his 1943 book The Machiavellians (paraphrasing), all complex societies are in effect oligarchies ruled by a small number of elites. To hide this fact and legitimize their rule in the eyes of the masses, oligarchies employ the powers of mystification and propaganda. The US stopped being a democracy sometime after the end of World War II and became instead a bureaucratic oligarchy. These regs exist because they benefit the elite.
Could this change? Could the regs be ended, and the regime that devised them be abolished? I suppose so. But there’s a better chance of a coin landing on its edge in a coin flip.
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