Obama Unveils Sharp Increase In Auto Fuel Economy

Reuters ^ | 29 July 2011 | Ayesha Rascoe and Deepa Seetharaman

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WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Several major automakers on Friday embraced the Obama administration's proposal to push the industry further away from once-dominant gas guzzlers to more lean and efficient vehicles.

The proposal, which is the result of months of negotiations between the Obama administration and automakers, would require automakers to reach an average fuel efficiency across their fleets of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

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Flanked by top auto maker executives, Obama said the new rules would lower the country's oil use by 2.2 million barrels a day over the next 15 years and save U.S. consumers almost $2 trillion in fuel costs.

What calculations are they using for the price of gas 15 years from now? It's almost 4X more expensive than it was 15 years ago.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I thought the commies were going to force everyone into driving GM Volts by 2025. There isn't going to be any need for oil and gasoline. Oil companies will be giving it away.

(Better add this) SARC/

[beethovenfan]

Also coming - a sharp increase in highway deaths.

[GingisK]

Also coming - a sharp increase in highway deaths

This side affect dovetails nicely with the purpose of Obamacare.

[Baynative]

The gas we are getting today has several factors leading to repair problems. It is now 10% ethanol and will go to 20% next year ...then eventually 50%.

That fuel gets less mileage, so we use more of it. It is also prone to generating moisture (water) which erodes many of the parts in the engine and fuel system such as carburetors and injectors.

[steveab]

Since it’s an average, look for Ford Motor to offer a 50cc motor scooter that get 150 mpg.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Auto industry, check
Oil industry, check
Healthcare industry, check
Financial industry, check
College loans, check
Our savings, check
Ruling the country by executive fiat, check

Yup, pretty much destroyed America

[Jim Noble]

Obama Unveils Sharp Increase In Auto Fuel Economy

He's cancelled the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

[Zuse]

Why 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025?
Think big. Big round numbers.

How about 100 miles per gallon by 2025?
At least 1000 miles per gallon by 2050.
Minimum 10000000 miles per gallon by 2100.

[DoughtyOne]

While he’s at it, I sure hope he sets some regulations covering tinsel strength for suspenders.

We need him to address issues like this. Who else is going to do it if he doesn’t?

Damn it!

The nation is going to hell in a hand basket, and this fruit loop thinks gas mileage is his mandate.

FO you illegitimate POS.

[Monitor]

My guess? Waivers will be handed out like candy to the DNC’s campaign contributors.

[G Larry]

Should Read:

“BO set BS, unattainable, “feel-good”, targets, rather than do something useful” ....again.....

[Gator113]

Thank God.

By then, I’ll either be dead or sitting in the corner of a darkened room, drooling and not really caring about much more than keeping flies from getting in my face.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Why would automakers embrace such fascism? Is it merely because Hussein held a gun to their heads? If I were a capitalist king, I would tell Hussein to shove his regulations high and deep—and that I intend to make cars that are WANTED BY THE PUBLIC.

[Psycho_Bunny]

This administrations disconnect is the purist form of existentialism you will ever see.

[SES1066]

Sure we auto company executives can do this Mr President - in 15 years I am going to be on a beach far out of US jurisdiction and it will be my 3rd generation successors who will be paying your tax bills and sweating the aluminum foil car bodies and the engines powered by liters of liquid unobtanium that this conservative proposal requires. Yepper, sure enjoyed my photo op with you, it will be a real keepsake for my kids, I’m leaving them a dartboard as well.

[Tallguy]

Well the voltage for these hybrids is pretty much a Pie-in-the-Sky figure to begin with based on a hypothetical driving profile that probably applies to very few. Factor that ridiculous number into the average fleet mileage and you can make it anything you want. Similar to the way the CBO cooks the books on the US budget or the FED does for economic forecasts.

[Tallguy]

“voltage” should be “mileage”.

[MrB]

Someone needs to require an amendment that says that all elected members of the federal government may not travel in any vehicle that doesn’t comply with these fuel mileage standards.

[taildragger]

To be repealed by a women who drives a pickup and knows how to shoot who is from an outlying state.....

As one of my "auto gnomes" noted we are making people movers not family movers especially with the MPG fixation trunk space and extra space for kids goes bye-bye.

Then again they are trying to fundamentally transform the American Family too.....

An all aluminum Diesel/Hybrid Minivan to meet these numbers? I don't think so, the Mom and Dad with 4 kids will not be able to swing it, my guess it it would be $10,000 more than a Volt...