Posted on 07/29/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT by Libloather
The Biden administration proposed a new and ambitious set of fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks Friday, its latest move to prod American consumers towards adopting electric vehicles (EVs).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a subagency of the Department of Transportation (DOT), unveiled the updated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which would require cars and lighter trucks to improve their respective fuel efficiencies by 2% and 4% starting in 2027, according to a DOT press release announcing the proposal.
The rule would also mandate work vans and pickup trucks to increase their fuel efficiencies by 10% each year, starting in 2030, according to the DOT press release. If manufacturers fail to meet the stipulations of the proposed CAFE standards, they will have to pay punitive fines to the government, according to the rule’s text.
General Motors voiced its concerns to the Biden administration about prospective new fuel economy standards, telling administration officials in mid-July that such standards could cost American automobile manufacturers as much as $100 billion in 2031 and $300 billion over a five-year timeline, according to Reuters. The administration reportedly dismissed General Motors’s concerns, telling the company that their analysis was incorrect.
“This is an EV mandate and further evidence that the elites want normal people to hoof it or take the bus,” Dan Kish, senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Americans had better wake up, because cars will soon be so expensive that people won’t be able to afford them.”
The NHTSA believes that the proposal will save Americans money at the gas pump while boosting American auto manufacturing and reducing reliance on foreign oil, the press release says.
However, the agency has conceded that the rule would saddle the auto manufacturing industry...
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Once they steal 2024 the gloves will be off. Biden, Newsom or whomever, it won’t matter. They’ll turn the US into CA to complete Bammy’s fundamental transformation.
But, we’ll just keep voting and pretend it matters.
Or we could all just stop voting. I would love to see what we could say with that.
I agree with you, however.
A lot of China's air pollution travels to California via air currents. We are forced to live under government mandates to not burn and pollute, while China is free to do so and send their pollutants to us.
So yes, China and India pollute with abandon. In India, millions of villagers collect wood every day for burning in their stoves to cook. Why no mandates against that? Etc. Can't wait for the White House moron and his minions to go away.
Ride ze bus. Eat ze bugs. EUTHANIZE ze DEMOCRATS!
I cast my first vote in 1972 for Richard Nixon and haven’t missed an election since.
However, in 2016 I stopped voting in congressional elections.
While I did and will vote for Trump again, and participate in state and local elections, I have no respect for Congress and will not condone the Uniparty.
My three congressional members from FL are GOP. “Eff ‘em all.
After this election, if they steal it again, what if only half the country voted next time?
Good thing the Biden administration will be gone end of next year a lot of clean up work ahead.
Prison visiting hours 12:00pm to 2:00pm Sundays
You are clearly not an engineer or even mathmatically inclined what so ever. Stupid.
<>After this election, if they steal it again, what if only half the country voted next time?<>
It won’t matter to our oligarchs in the Imperial City, Washington DC, Rome-on-the-Potomac.
Hmmm. Perhaps the Uniparty will pass a law that makes voting mandatory and subject to felony prosecution for violations?
They did that already. He just printed his own ballots.
It would be a statement however. If it comes to that I think we should consider a mass abstainment.
And your a dried up fossil that we don’t have to suffer for long.
Not to democrats. They prefer solar & wind.
Name Barack Hussein Obama ring a bell?
Good!
“The NHTSA believes that the proposal will save Americans money at the gas pump while boosting American auto manufacturing and reducing reliance on foreign oil”
They don’t believe in any such thing. All government departments always promises to save us money and create jobs while laying down their onerous regulations. And it never comes true. For example, millions of Americans are still waiting on their annual 2600 in savings on their health care thanks to Obamacare.
Doe the efficiency-improvement mandate apply to EV's as well?
EVs are a waste of money and resources, not to mention time.
I’m thinking back to LBJ’s “Great Society” and forward, under almost all administrations.
But...
...we were supposed to get STRAW for our bricks!!!
No wonder Carvana etal are buying up all the USED ones!!
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