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Is this for real or an April's fool story?
1 posted on 04/02/2022 7:29:07 AM PDT by devane617
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well.. there is a fool involved, but no its not an April fool joke!


2 posted on 04/02/2022 7:29:56 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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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.


3 posted on 04/02/2022 7:32:34 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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my Chevy Spark is already averaging 38 mpg.


5 posted on 04/02/2022 7:37:51 AM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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Well, a good plan would be to buy up a bunch of older used cars.. Buy for a little, sell for a lot.. $$$


6 posted on 04/02/2022 7:38:22 AM PDT by unread (Everything you ever thought was right, fair and just is completely wrong..... I think..(?))
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And just where does the NHTSA get the authority to issue such mandates?

I'm sick of out of control government bureaucracies dictating how we live our lives.

9 posted on 04/02/2022 7:45:31 AM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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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.


11 posted on 04/02/2022 7:50:01 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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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.


14 posted on 04/02/2022 7:52:50 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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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.


16 posted on 04/02/2022 7:59:29 AM PDT by oblomov
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19 posted on 04/02/2022 8:07:19 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Let’s Go Brandon! Aluminum for everyone.


22 posted on 04/02/2022 8:10:58 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Why not a 200 miles per gallon - we could save a lot more money that way...

24 posted on 04/02/2022 8:15:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignorinbg reality. Ayn Rand)
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I’m presently driving a loaner until a part comes in for a recall item on my car. I was given a 2021 Chevy. It gets 34.7 miles per gallon at the rate of speed I go. My 2008 get about 23. Even with pension I don’t anticipate buying anything new.


28 posted on 04/02/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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Of course the Rat Party elite will be exempt.
30 posted on 04/02/2022 8:39:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Why not make it 100 mpg, or 500?

Since it is not based on anything other then to force Americans out of their affordable transportation into electric vehicles that last around five year before batteries need to be replaced.

Elections have consequences. This is just one.


31 posted on 04/02/2022 8:41:57 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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What cars are the millions of illegals crossing the border going to drive?

-PJ

33 posted on 04/02/2022 8:46:50 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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By 2030 all Dictatorships will demand you only drive an EV , they’ll never make enough ,LOL


34 posted on 04/02/2022 8:57:37 AM PDT by butlerweave
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As real as Wash state banning new gas powered cars.

Our Malibu averages 32 miles a gallon open road, 28 in city. With the AC running.


36 posted on 04/02/2022 8:59:29 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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My truck gets 9.2mpg and programmed for 93 octane or higher. My 75 C3 is about the same 9mpg.

We use the wife’s Escape at 24mpg most of the time.


39 posted on 04/02/2022 9:06:29 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Unless the supply of electricity grows significantly, as the demand rises due to these tyrannical government EV mandates, the price of electricity will also grow significantly.

So much for Xo Xiden’s promises of huge savings for the consumers who are forced into electric vehicles.

Who in the real world, other than worshipers at the Tesla Temple, actually believe that electricity prices will remain stable?

This scheme can only work if, along with the mandates, new generation capacity is created, and corresponding revamping of our decrepit distribution networks takes place.

Is that going to happen? Probably not until we reach a crisis stage, and then it’s way too late.


40 posted on 04/02/2022 9:18:20 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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From related thread...

"The National Highway Traffic Safety [???] Administration"


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Desperate, elite federal Democrats and RINOs are once again not only hiding behind non-elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined, so-called federal regulatory agencies, but election year Congress is wrongly letting these bureaucrats get away with stealing state powers to deal with politically correct global warming to make their unconstitutional edicts imo.

In fact, the only mention of public safety in the Constitution limits Congress's power to deal with safety issues to suspension of Writ of Habeous Corpus in cases of rebellion or invasion.

And since stolen state powers (imo) have been mentioned, why aren't state lawmakers complaining about blatant federal government overreach? (The answer is that state legislatures foolishly gave up their voices in Congress when they unthinkingly ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.)

Corrections, insights welcome.

Next, patriots are also reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.

Again, insights welcome.

41 posted on 04/02/2022 9:33:49 AM PDT by Amendment10
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