I don’t suppose it could have anything to do with
unreasonable/unobtainable goals.......Noooooooooooo.
or cheating
Four more horsepower and over 50 lbs. heavier than 2013.
Taxes and license fees by weight are coming!
Tell Al Gore to lose his SUV.
My mother asked why SUV’s and trucks are so popular. In a word, space. Cars that meet the EPA restrictions are too small to ride comfortably in day after day. It wouldn’t be so bad if they’d bring back bench seats and skip the sexy center console. But every new car interior resembles a fighter’s cockpit. Give me a bench seat and some foot room please.
One wonders if the EPA understands the concept of “diminishing returns”.
backsliding, oh the horror! Man’s contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere might just reach 0.00137% of the atmosphere by 3015 if we don’t jump right on that!
Note that this comes as automakers are EXCEEDING the CAFE standards required improvement. That’s because there are cheats built into CAFE, such a huge approved fake numbers for flex fuel vehicles. Another reason fuel ethanol isn’t going away soon.
Can anyone tell me why we should believe anything that comes out of this criminal, agenda-driven organization? They have lost all credibility and should be shut down as a colossal failure.
auto makers should call the bluff, like they did back in the mid 70’s.
The geniuses at the EPA see no problem with demanding cleaner cars at the same time they demand better mileage. The two objectives are much of the time incompatible.
Meanwhile, Americans are voting with their checkbooks. SUV’s, pickup trucks and minivans remain popular. Electric cars are selling like crap sandwiches.
For those of us who live in the north electric cars are totally impractical. Who wants a tin can with a 25 mile range and no heater in -20 weather?
I wonder if that was because those were the cars people wanted to buy.
If people wanted small cramped cars that got 60 miles per gallon the car manufacturers would sell lots of them but people don’t buy cars that are uncomfortable and inconvenient because all you can stuff into it is a deck of cards. Then there is the fact that those light fuel efficient cars get blown off the road by the first brisk wind that comes along or the first 18 wheeler that happens to pass you.
Did it ever occur to these utopians that, at some point, you reach a point of diminishing returns? This has been my complaint and frustration for years now, i.e., that modern cars burn really cleanly and as older vehicles phase out of use the total emissions of actual pollutants will continue to diminish.
Does the EPA mean to say that the American People have failed because we have not advanced toward their arbitrary goal? What kind of a screwed-up attitude is that for a government agency to tell the people that they have failed? They answer to the people, not the other way around.
Maybe the government should just fire the American People and import a population from abroad that is more cooperative and tractable, willing to work for lower pay, drive smaller cars, and vote reliably Democrat.
Nawwww. That would be crazy!
Every time a refugee comes to the United States from some Third World basket case of a country, he immediately begins to produce many times more CO2 emissions as he starts to drive cars, live in a heated house, and adopt the US consumer life-style. This increase in CO2 emissions will lead to Global Climate Change, if you believe in that sort of thing...
So we should require that these people stay out of the United States to prevent these increased emissions. After all, Global Climate Change is the biggest national security threat we face. Future generations will curse us for each refugee we accept, because we are increasing the severity of the future devastation.
Won’t somebody think of the children?!?
No tree grows to the sky. The next step would be forcing drivers into itty-bitty cars, and out of their SUVs.
The question that really needs to be asked is what is the goal? Peak oil has been postponed indefinitely; America is about to become an oil exporter; and the nation runs on energy. Is there a clear, distinct goal here that the country can agree on? Or is it regulation for its own sake?
People who would normally buy the smallest, most fuel efficient cars don’t have any money for new ones. The folks with some change for new car are buying bigger ones, and trucks. Fleet mileage naturally goes down. Expect more onerous gas guzzler taxes in 3...2...1...
The envirowackos won’t be happy until we’re all riding bikes everywhere.