Posted on 08/01/2023 7:33:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
Currently, the U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standard requires a fleet average of 49 mpg for car manufacturers, which is already kinda ridiculous.
And now here's what Biden and the Left want to do to that number:
Biden Admin Wants 58 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard By 2032
😂😂😂 Seriously, these people want us in electric vehicles, stat. There's no other way to look at this.
The Biden administration on Friday announced a proposal to require raising fuel economy standards to 58 miles per gallon.
The proposal, from the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), would aim for a respective 2% annual increase for passenger cars, and a 4% increase in light trucks' Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for 2027 - 2032 models, and would require 2030 - 2035 "heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans" to boost fuel economy by 10% per year.
Yeah, I bet that's gonna work out for automakers!
Sorry for the sarcasm, but car manufacturers are already paying record penalties for these fuel efficiency standards, and the price they pay in penalties is going up as well. GM estimates that these new rules could cost the industry over $100 billion in new penalties.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation which represents GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and others has asked the EPA to soften its emissions proposal, calling it "neither reasonable nor achievable."
It's easy to see what they're doing here.
They're simply, by executive fiat, phasing out gas-powered vehicles.
"If finalized as proposed, the updated standards would save Americans hundreds of dollars at the pump," reads a NHTSA press release. "all while making America more energy secure and less reliant on foreign oil"...
The NHTSA also estimates $18 billion of "combined benefits" would be realized as a result.
The rule, according to the agency, "will encourage manufacturers producing (internal combustion engine) vehicles during the standard-setting timeframe to achieve significant fuel economy, improve energy security, and reduce harmful pollution by a large amount."
It's all sunshine and lollipops, folks, until that beautiful gas-guzzling SUV in your garage becomes irreplaceable and you have to live the rest of your life running your car on rationed electricity.
That’s just a way to get gas cars off the roads. Do not believe what he tells you.
Sheets of cellophane strecthed over balsa wood frames.
they are pretending that the EV is the alternative to the gas car
the reality is most will be forced onto public transportation
If that includes electric EVs, great.
Easy.
there’s no thought or “science” behind this. Edicts like this are the diktats of self-important, out-of-touch and ideological central-planning apparatchiks, buried within agencies like the EPA, Dept. of Energy and Consumer Products Safety Commission
They might actually achieve this if the brought back the 2 stroke engine......................
I want a ‘62 Studebaker Avanti, which is far more likely to happen
Yep, if anything it should be 58 MPK, miles per kilo-watt.
He’s going to have to dump Jill’s Corvette at the cash for clunker store to make his dream come true.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but car manufacturers are already paying record penalties for these fuel efficiency standards, and the price they pay in penalties is going up as well. GM estimates that these new rules could cost the industry over $100 billion in new penalties.
Correction - It is going to cost consumers $100 billion in new penalties...
What is the gas mileage of a vintage Corvette?
What gas mileage does a Porsche get at 175 mph?
Asking for a friend.
PINK UNICORNS IN EVERY DRIVEWAY!
Trabant the next next generation.
Sounds like back to Fred Flintstone cars for the masses.
(Whatever masses are left by then, that is.)
67 or 68 cougar, base, XR7, or eliminator model.
I had 67 base model but it wound up being sold to solve a problem and keep peace around the home.
Maybe one day……..
If just 20% of cars are electric in the next 10 years, that is hit.
(I think)
If just Teslas are calculated in this, I bet that will be no problem.
They will have to repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics.................
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