No problem.
Posted on 06/26/2011 8:19:18 AM PDT by Pontiac
The Obama administration is considering a fleetwide average of 56.2 miles per gallon for all new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. by 2025, two people briefed on the matter said. The proposal would roughly double current fuel-economy targets, and would likely raise the price of some cars by several thousand dollars. The proposal isn't final, and could be adjusted over the next several weeks as regulators prepare a formal draft to send to White House budget officials. The administration has said previously that it is looking at requiring cars average between 47 and 62 mpg by 2025. The fuel-mileage targets would be accompanied by stringent rules to reduce vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases. Environmental groups and the state of California have pressed for the 62 mpg target or something close to that, while the industry has lobbied for a target on the lower end of the administration's range. The targets for 2025 would build on the administration's requirement that autos average 35.5 mpg by 2016. U.S. officials are expected to release their final numbers for 2017-2025 in September.
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Why not 56.3? Seriously, go for broke!
and WE THE PUBLIC are supposed to think fuel will be the same price as today
Obozo can demand crap like this all he wants. It’s doable with batteries and electric motors but like the dolt, it won’t be a
“peoples” car.
I do wonder if the VW TDI engine will pass the air standards test, it does choke 50+ mpg out of a gallon of diesel.
Just end all this insanity in November, 2012.
Great now i can pay 100k for a focus......
I say nothing less than 57.3 MPG.
These people aren’t going for it like they say they are.
They believe that Unicorns and Pixie Dust This Administration operates on Magical Thinking.
can repeal Newton's Laws of Physics.
I think that O’s approach copies that of Captain Picard or the Enterprise: “Make it so.”
No problem.
Yes, these morons need to go and everything they have done needs to be undone. Everything.
The market will demand that gas mileage improve, but Obama will take credit.
I think that is their intent. Seriously!
These socialist think that we in the US have had it too good for too long. Their ideology demands equality above all. They intend to break this country to bring us down to the level of the Third World.
They want to bring our country’s economy down by destroying our major industries that make up the basis of our country.
If they are not doing it intentionally it really doesn’t matter. It only means that they are too stupid to govern and should be deposed at the first opportunity.
I find decimal points confusing. So to simplify things, the government should mandate 562 MPG.
It requires no work or money or laws from the government. But Obama would like to take credit for it anyway.
Problem is, there won’t be any electricity generated by the Regime (Electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket...)...We will freeze to death and that will solve “the problem”...
Messiah Obama Speaketh. Make it so!
A horse and mule uses no gasoline. I’d say we’d be going back to those except we’ll probably eat the first one we see.
I shut off the engine when coasting downhill.
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