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Autos would get up to 62 mpg under US plan
Reuters ^ | Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 | John Crawley

Posted on 10/01/2010 1:07:50 PM PDT by Willie Green

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Automaker fleets would have to achieve substantially higher fuel efficiency -- between 47 and 62 miles per gallon -- by 2025 under a preliminary plan to further slash U.S. gasoline use that was released by the Obama administration on Friday.

Gasoline and electric hybrid vehicles and electric cars would play a crucial role in meeting the higher-range targets, according to the analysis crafted by federal environmental and transportation regulators.

"We must, and we will, keep the momentum going to make sure that all motor vehicles sold in America are realizing the best fuel economy and greenhouse gas reductions possible," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.

The auto industry is wary of any mandates that would increase costs or adversely affect production schedules for passenger cars and light trucks, which include sport utilities, vans and pickups.

(Excerpt) Read more at af.reuters.com ...


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To: Doogle

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575525662075790880.html


21 posted on 10/01/2010 1:17:55 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Willie Green
Crappy little cars are another good reason to ride the train instead.

Not if the Metropolitan Transportation Districts are run as reparations, and the affirmative-actioned MSD bureaucrats allowed to loot and steal just because of the color of their skin.

22 posted on 10/01/2010 1:17:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Willie Green

Might as well mandate 1000 mpg. The internal combustion engine is probably nearing its limits as far as what’s technically feasible now. Notice that is feasible, not profitable or useful.


23 posted on 10/01/2010 1:18:23 PM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: Willie Green

So we will all be driving motorcycles and scooters? Great. Where do I put the groceries?


24 posted on 10/01/2010 1:19:37 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Willie Green

Why not 1000 MPG?

Seriously, with this line of thinking why didn’t they just legislate safe, room temperature fusion into existence?


25 posted on 10/01/2010 1:19:44 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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To: GreenAccord
Re: "In a related bill, Obama approves the 2,580 foot mile, to be used in all 57 states."

How about a 5,280 foot mile?

26 posted on 10/01/2010 1:20:51 PM PDT by Cribb (Home of Conservatism - America's middle class.)
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To: Kozak

If gas mileage was just a question of legislation, why don’t they just set it at 100 mph?


27 posted on 10/01/2010 1:21:58 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: equalitybeforethelaw
Great. Where do I put the groceries?

There won't be any food, so it's a win-win.

28 posted on 10/01/2010 1:22:27 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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To: ctdonath2
Train? From where to where?

Where ever the fatherland decides you need to be comrade.
29 posted on 10/01/2010 1:23:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Willie Green
The ultimate goal of libtards for all of us always been this folks...Get real!
30 posted on 10/01/2010 1:25:01 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Willie Green

Exceptions will be made for important officials like union leaders, Congressional Democrats, and environmental activists.


31 posted on 10/01/2010 1:25:40 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann)
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To: IYAS9YAS

“Great. Where do I put the groceries?
There won’t be any food, so it’s a win-win.”

Okay, great, one less thing, you know. That Obama is a miracle worker.


32 posted on 10/01/2010 1:25:46 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

Hey! Just make 10 trips!


33 posted on 10/01/2010 1:25:53 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

You just have to go to a restaurant...but wait, that makes you fat...OFF TO THE GULAG WITH YOU, THINKER! ;-)


34 posted on 10/01/2010 1:26:15 PM PDT by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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To: Willie Green

My vacant lot next door is going to acquire a metal building that will hold several cars. Time to hoard them just like ammo. I’m 61, no need to buy another new car, ever.


35 posted on 10/01/2010 1:26:15 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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To: Cribb

OK, I’m going to ‘splain this once. See, to get 62 MPG, you can either spends billions on research into efficiencies and weight savings and all sorts of new technology, or you can make a car that gets 31 MPG get twice that by simply halving (sort of, I chose to use the same numbers but rearrange them) the distance a mile is.

(Kinda why I threw in the 57 states part)


36 posted on 10/01/2010 1:26:37 PM PDT by GreenAccord (Bakon Akbar!)
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To: bt579

Instead of leasing like we usually do, we purchased a Ford Flex. We are planning on keeping it until we bury it. They won’t take my big vehicle from me!!!!


37 posted on 10/01/2010 1:27:13 PM PDT by KYGrandma (The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home......)
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To: Kozak

That’s the point of these liberal a-holes!.....it will never happen so put everyone on bicycles!....welcome to their third world for all of us!


38 posted on 10/01/2010 1:28:00 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Willie Green
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39 posted on 10/01/2010 1:31:16 PM PDT by RetSignman (A funny thing happened on the way to America's destruction, millions of giants awoke)
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To: Willie Green

Why stop at 62, why not make it 100?


40 posted on 10/01/2010 1:31:57 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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