[glide625]

I’m trying to understand this news item; If they’re setting a CAFE standard, wouldn’t that mean, more or less, business as usual, in that, they produce some oversized golf cart that gets 50 mph to offset the trucks getting 12 to 25 MPH?

I’m thinking that if that’s the case then.....this is window dressing.

[9YearLurker]

Yep, and more lower-income people who can’t afford the larger cars and gas get killed on the highway—but don’t both Obama with such details!

[Tallguy]

It probably is window dressing. The CAFE standards levy penalties on the auto companies if their fleet fuel economy exceeds a given benchmark. Are they really going to levy penalties against companies that they effectively control? When they aren’t making any profit at all?

As for 50mpg cars. Sure it can be done. They are close now. You just have to lighten the more fuel efficient models a bit more.

[truthguy]

Please go to a site that explains CAFE standards and how they are calculated. This is rudimentary. CAFE stands for Corporate, Average, Fuel, Economy. This means the auto manufactures must meet an AVERAGE of 35mpg on the cars they sell. This is *ucking outrageous. This is one of the dumbest and most arrogant things this clown has done yet.