One of our priorities is making sure fuel-economy standards reflect market realities
Keeping the currently legislated increased CAFE standards would kill Ford. Ford makes the big bucks on their gas guzzling trucks and SUVs. They make nothing on the econocrap cars like the Fiesta.
Trump should demand a bill abolishing CAFE be ready to sign his first day in office. Let the market, not the EPA, decide what Ford sells.
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Let the consumer & the car makers alone. Those who insist on a high mileage vehicle with no ability to carry anything but people isn’t a vehicle a tradesman can use for their work. There are millions of tradesmen in the USA & they need a beefy truck.
I need a 1 ton truck to haul my horses & nothing smaller will be SAFE for that task. I am willing to buy & pay for the gas. By the time the CAFE standards have a ‘truck’ getting 54 miles per gallon—it no longer is a ‘truck’ that will pull my horse trailer. Calling a smaller a truck a ‘1 ton’ truck is another sales pitch. I can put the brake parts for that truck & the ones I need on my 1 ton truck alongside each other on the parts counter & I know which one I want. I don’t get to chose when I have to make a sudden stop. I better have plenty of braking surface to stop.
The government has been interfering with auto & truck manufacturing for too long now.