http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/cafe/2017-25_CAFE_Final_Rule.pdf
and how much taxpayer monies were blown on meetings, lunches, dinners, drinks, etc. in the process.
Romney needs to overturn this, too, along with 0bamacare.
We can get mad at Obama, but it was President’s Ford and Bush-43 that get credit for the enabling legislation, based on the first page of the PDF.
...also, the penalty is specified in the law (not the rule), so the ability to really force this kind of fuel mileage is not all that clear. For example, as explained in the text, if an auto company averages 23 MPG, rather than 53 MPG, the buyer of each car (through the manufacturer) will be required to pay $1650 per car, with the possibility of going to $3,000. Yes, a lot of money, but if your build BMWs, Mercedes, Lotii, etc., even $3k is practically lost in the noise.
The bottom-line is that this will wind up as simply being a federal vehicle tax - and, of course, punish the poor the worst.
This is the document that drives the entire market for vehicles. We don’t have a free market where customers can choose what they want to buy. They get to buy whichever CAFE approved car they want. That is a big difference. And this document is an effective barrier to entry for any new car company who wants to enter, because the costs of compliance are very high, raising the startup capital levels of prospective new manufacturers.