I consistently get > 50 mpg with my 2006 Tdi, so 54.5 is no big deal to me.
Posted on 08/10/2015 5:35:04 AM PDT by thackney
The director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality today shot down the notion that the agency has already decided to implement a 54.5 mpg corporate fleet average for 2025.
The average is officially proposed, but the decision to raise, lower or leave alone the 54.5 corporate fleet fuel economy average for 2025 won’t be made until after a review in 2017 and 2018. The decision is due in April 2018.
“There is a perception out here that the decision is already made,” Chris Grundler said at the CAR Management Briefing Seminars. “That is wrong. The EPA administrator makes the final decision, and he will work for the next president.”
He said that in the review the EPA will examine everything from the price of fuel to consumer acceptance of new technologies.
The process of gathering the data for the mid-term evaluation is already underway. Grundler said the EPA is studying consumer acceptance of new fuel-saving technologies, such as stop-start systems, direct fuel injection, downsized turbo engines and transmissions with more than six speeds.
Grundler said the EPA will issue a report on these technologies in June 2016. Later that year the EPA will seek public comment. And then in April 2018, EPA administrator will decide if the 2025 standards will stick.
Three choices
The EPA administrator, Grundler said, will be faced with three choices: Determine the standards are appropriate and make no changes; make the standard more stringent; or relax them.
Pointing to several vehicles already on the road, Grundler said automakers are ahead of schedule in meeting the 2025 fuel economy standards. The aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F-150, he said, already complies with 2024 standards, while the Ram 1500 and Chevrolet Silverado comply with 2021 standards.
Grundler also busted some myths about the 2025 standards. He said:
• If consumers migrate to larger, less-efficient pickups and SUVs, automakers’ individual fuel economy fleet standards will automatically adjust. “The standards adjust with sales mix. We are not forcing everyone into small cars. Americans can still chose vehicles that meet most of their needs.”
• Low fuel prices have not affected consumers’ desire to buy fuel-efficient vehicles.
• Consumers have accepted and like new fuel economy technologies, with the exceptions of stop-start systems and continuously variable transmissions.
Despite the growing number of diesel and electrified vehicles, the EPA, Grundler said, believes it will be highly efficient gasoline engines that will remain dominant through the 2025 period.
I got a better solution. Arrest those responsible for this, disband the EPA and use ALL the funds that are used to run that agency to fund the health issue that will result in this government caused disaster.
Oh, and the plume has reached Lake Powell as of Friday. Very soon Lake Mead.
Well there are about 10.3 trillion gallons in lake mead, so the Colorado spill is insignificant.
10,300,000,000,000 gals / 10,000,000 gals = 1 part in 1,300,000
It is not the parts per million with heavy metals. It is the accumulative effect. Keep drinking it and it adds up to some pretty serious health problems.
Maybe it is minute, thats fine. But would you purposely drink mercury, arsenic, cyanide?
Now to be sure, there are some of these naturally within that Lake. But why in the hell would anyone accept this as a result of an agency that force themselves upon the American citizen daily through its ideology?
Yes it will settle out in time. But who pays for the health effects of those effected as a result of this debacle?
Remember the Downwinders?
Aluminum auto wheels are both lighter and stiffer than stamped steel wheels. The sheet meal structures could go either way on energy absorption.
As for using the entire EPA budget to fund health remediation I can neither imagine the resulting health issues will be nearly that expensive, nor would I want to leave that huge a budget within federal control. Returning the federal EPA budget to the taxpayers should be the long term goal, with the states subtracting whatever, likely smaller share, is really needed for environmental regulation at their level.
Here is what has to be done. The local county or citizens have to hire a private expert to come in and test that stuff for them.
The lies are already starting and the finger pointing is starting.
I will bet the Navajo nation is doing that right as of now.
I voted for Barry Goldwater. Did not vote in the elections after...till Reagan.
None of the reports I found over the weekend have shown the plume to have made it out of New Mexico (most were from early Friday morning). Do you have an updated link to show it's at Lake Powell?
All central planners are full of it. They always pretend that they’re not forcing you when they really are and really want to. We overthrew the British to get rid of only one king, yet today we’re ruled by a thousand kinglings.
As I said in another post to you, we know that what we are doing is not working. We know that placing our faith in the legal political process has been a waste of time and misplaced trust for a long time. We have been conditioned to reject the thought of the alternative means for redress of our grievances as too dangerous or somehow unlawful... to take back what is ours that we have given. Imagine that, conditioned to not take the very action that allowed this nation to be established.
How is it that a child born today must automatically accept laws that he did not and could not have agreed to?
I consistently get > 50 mpg with my 2006 Tdi, so 54.5 is no big deal to me.
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